netdev - Re: [RFC] wimax: move out to staging

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Message-ID: <20201028103456.GB1042@kadam>
Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:34:56 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] wimax: move out to staging

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:20:13PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
> be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.
> 
> According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
> have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that these entries
> are all stale, after everyone has migrated to LTE or discontinued their
> service altogether.

Wimax is still pretty common in Africa.  But you have to buy an outdoor
antenae with all the software on it and an ethernet cable into your
house.  I don't know what software the antennaes are using.  Probably
Linux but with an out of tree kernel module is my guess.

regards,
dan carpenter