linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] staging: vt6656: Proposal to delete driver vt6656

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Message-ID: <b2ac0a21-989b-4f36-9bb4-923221a77fb1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:02:18 +0100
From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@...il.com>
To: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com>,
 linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Teddy Engel <engel.teddy@...il.com>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>,
 Sathish Kumar <skumark1902@...il.com>,
 Florian Ziegler <florian.ziegler@...teo.de>,
 Pritthijit Nath <pritthijit.nath@...oud.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 tdavies@...kphysics.net, m.omerfarukbulut@...il.com,
 Dominik Karol Piątkowski
 <dominik.karol.piatkowski@...tonmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] staging: vt6656: Proposal to delete driver vt6656_stage

> Dear Sirs,
> 
> Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009.
> 
> The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
> - This driver generates maintenance workload
> - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g. Peak throughput is 3MBytes/s.
> - ping times can be 17ms are often above 500ms and worst case 22 seconds.
> 
> I suggest deleting the driver as it no longer meets current expectations.
> 
> Former Maintainer Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net> is unreachable.
> 
> The staging subsystem needs to focus on drivers that support usable hardware that is available. Newbies can then get the hardware and play around which is fun.
> 
> Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels.
> 
> Thanks for any response about your thoughts.
> 
> No response will result in a patch for removal in 14 days. 

Hi Philipp

The vt6656_stage USB driver is still widely in use, I still use one on my raspberry pi and usually get me out of trouble when main wireless device fails.

I do not see the connection issues that you describe and generally the driver reforms well,

Any b/g devices devices in the wireless/staging tree when used with or sharing with newer ones will have connection problems due to the considerable interference.

I have not problems with deleting the PCI vt6655_stage driver.

Regards


Malcolm