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Message-ID: <2023103001-drew-parmesan-c61a@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:25:40 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
Cc: Kira <nyakov13@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@...il.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>,
Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:04:00AM +1100, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> This reverts commit 875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf.
>
> On All Hallows' Eve, fear and cower for it is the return of the undead
> driver.
>
> There was a report [1] from a user of a QLE8142 device. They would like for
> the driver to remain in the kernel. Therefore, revert the removal of the
> qlge driver.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/566c0155-4f80-43ec-be2c-2d1ad631bf25@gmail.com/
Who's going to maintain this?
> Reported by: Kira <nyakov13@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> Once the removal and revert show up in the net-next tree, I plan to send a
> followup patch to move the driver to drivers/net/ as discussed earlier:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org/
are you going to be willing to maintain this and keep it alive?
I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging. So
how about applying this, and a follow-on one that moves it there once
-rc1 is out? And it probably should be in the 'net' tree, as you don't
want 6.7 to come out without the driver at all, right?
> +QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER
> +M: Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>
> +M: GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com
> +M: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@...il.com>
> +L: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> +S: Supported
> +F: Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst
> +F: drivers/staging/qlge/
It's obvious taht these people are not maintaining this code, so they
should be dropped from the MAINTAINERS file as well.
thanks,
greg k-h
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