netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 22:19:47 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware,
> > > and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them
> > > on modern kernels, if at all.
> > > 
> > > All three drivers apparently are for hardware that predates PCI
> > > being the common connector, as they are ISA-only and active
> > > PCI ISDN cards were widely available in the 1990s.
> > > 
> > > Looking through the git logs, it I cannot find any indication of a
> > > patch to any of these drivers that has been tested on real hardware,
> > > only cleanups or global API changes.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > > Acked-by: Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>
> > 
> > This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release.  As I am now taking
> > patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the
> > drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done
> > anything with it.  If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be
> > glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week.
> > Otherwise it's time to just move on 
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Ok, now deleted!

thanks,

greg k-h