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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:56:28 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.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. > > NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the > www.linuxwimax.org > site had already shut down earlier. > > WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks > ("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old > Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the > only driver using the kernel's wimax stack. > > Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header > files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets > to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order > to make it possible to port patches across the move. > > Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing > list and website. > > Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Is this ok for me to take through the staging tree? If so, I need an ack from the networking maintainers. If not, feel free to send it through the networking tree and add: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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