netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

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Message-Id: <20170828.164208.1908438929113102094.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:42:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete
 it

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:03:30 +0200

> The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken.  So, to keep people
> from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> the kernel in a few releases.

No objection, I'll apply this to net-next, thanks Greg.