netdev - Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"

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Message-ID: <2023103001-drew-parmesan-c61a@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:25:40 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
Cc: Kira <nyakov13@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
	Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@...il.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>,
	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:04:00AM +1100, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> This reverts commit 875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf.
> 
> On All Hallows' Eve, fear and cower for it is the return of the undead
> driver.
> 
> There was a report [1] from a user of a QLE8142 device. They would like for
> the driver to remain in the kernel. Therefore, revert the removal of the
> qlge driver.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/566c0155-4f80-43ec-be2c-2d1ad631bf25@gmail.com/

Who's going to maintain this?

> Reported by: Kira <nyakov13@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Once the removal and revert show up in the net-next tree, I plan to send a
>     followup patch to move the driver to drivers/net/ as discussed earlier:
>     https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org/

are you going to be willing to maintain this and keep it alive?

I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging.  So
how about applying this, and a follow-on one that moves it there once
-rc1 is out?  And it probably should be in the 'net' tree, as you don't
want 6.7 to come out without the driver at all, right?

> +QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER
> +M:	Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>
> +M:	GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com
> +M:	Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@...il.com>
> +L:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
> +S:	Supported
> +F:	Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst
> +F:	drivers/staging/qlge/

It's obvious taht these people are not maintaining this code, so they
should be dropped from the MAINTAINERS file as well.

thanks,

greg k-h