From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@kernel.org>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
"Geoff Levand" <geoff@infradead.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Jeff Johnson" <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
"Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
"Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>, "Stanislaw Gruszka" <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
"Gregory Greenman" <gregory.greenman@intel.com>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:10:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org>
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:
>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>
>> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
>> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>>
>> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
>> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the
>> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the
>> driver removal individually.
>>
>> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out
>
> Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any
> conflicts with other wireless patches.
My mistake, I actually rebased them on top of wireless-next before
sending out the patches, I just forgot update the text I had
already written a week earlier.
> We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new
> features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week.
> So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now.
Sounds good to me, thanks!
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-23 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-23 13:19 Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 01/10] wifi: libertas: drop 16-bit PCMCIA support Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 02/10] wifi: atmel: remove wext style at76c50x drivers Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] wifi: remove obsolete hostap driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:36 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 05/10] wifi: remove orphaned zd1201 driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 06/10] wifi: remove orphaned orinoco driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 07/10] wifi: remove orphaned ray_cs driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 08/10] wifi: remove orphaned wl3501 driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 09/10] wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 14:39 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 23:43 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2023-10-24 9:30 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 13:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] " Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers Kalle Valo
2023-10-23 14:10 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2023-10-23 14:41 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-30 7:19 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-10-30 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-10-30 16:55 ` Kalle Valo
2023-10-31 9:08 ` Kalle Valo
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