From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B44C004C0 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230317AbjJWOU4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:20:56 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:59468 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230255AbjJWOUx (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:20:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 611 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:20:51 PDT Received: from new3-smtp.messagingengine.com (new3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.229]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F96110B; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailnew.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CC4581579; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:10:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imap51 ([10.202.2.101]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:10:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=arndb.de; h=cc :cc:content-type:content-type:date:date:from:from:in-reply-to :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references:reply-to:sender :subject:subject:to:to; s=fm2; t=1698070239; x=1698077439; bh=Cd D00F6lo71GUCVAQ5trDcf1jHXe2aUX3dC/0CHjbQ4=; b=qXXUQDlq0gAM5PfthE tj0+25tcD8B0dHKH53Y8/RBXX924Jv6+TCHgZ2DmBOPjpvDgoA6vfpQG4R5hBMmt yHtfzcx94RUzYA4BDrAoin2MGZ9kXM/rf7x82Q//kq1W0KkIWXdbljW91rPjUY10 iRUXdIVSZOXRcMy+b0MSGV4mTsBo28657zFxjy3PRri+A74kVikmvO6Xd/Sb8C1A oMniFTNPeg0h1+dV/VIixGCsQ9XQZL88wvFFNQCjTxIPUd7T5AlibIF/mb+73/mn rD6df1qJCAMghE6/MeI4S6hQKhruJM8DpbU8wOeo3F8pqdD07HqekPFue6fcWKC2 Nfyw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-type:content-type:date:date :feedback-id:feedback-id:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:reply-to:sender:subject :subject:to:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; t=1698070239; x=1698077439; bh=CdD00F6lo71GU CVAQ5trDcf1jHXe2aUX3dC/0CHjbQ4=; b=hwUXLudllnoVroI4li0WSBuEKuS0m x5JRGf4/rrt20gTiLKboQBd6YiuI3HjGNfNnZ9Qt/2j90IzlMAv0YnNIbqMbmY55 jVswrzfOKf8HCvbXFn/kXKL9/sGSehUbUCFycV0fu7SSdmzd2sLmz31QFbgIxbd0 EhrKOBsPWx2hBCzFogyLfVylT3+4xDBLCoPQKZtY7fPCOnYGrDFcS9nep+3kBW4I jQet8pbe+BVl0IMhMejxkIqBU0Qd47FVWAuQTSGij7McKriKYUY8QW6/R4Fbk+2C Z6myKGW5RtMaGCBgn86OL+EXsFoa64U8ph445g0QiK8ba1orns8o2vIHg== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvkedrkeeigdejudcutefuodetggdotefrodftvf curfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecu uegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenuc fjughrpefofgggkfgjfhffhffvvefutgesthdtredtreertdenucfhrhhomhepfdetrhhn ugcuuegvrhhgmhgrnhhnfdcuoegrrhhnugesrghrnhgusgdruggvqeenucggtffrrghtth gvrhhnpeffheeugeetiefhgeethfejgfdtuefggeejleehjeeutefhfeeggefhkedtkeet ffenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpegrrh hnugesrghrnhgusgdruggv X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: i56a14606:Fastmail Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1EB20B60089; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:10:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-1048-g9229b632c5-fm-20231019.001-g9229b632 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> References: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:10:16 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Kalle Valo" , "Arnd Bergmann" Cc: "David S . Miller" , "Alexandre Belloni" , "Claudiu Beznea" , "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "Geoff Levand" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Jakub Kicinski" , "Jeff Johnson" , "Johannes Berg" , "Larry Finger" , "Nicolas Ferre" , "Pavel Machek" , "Stanislaw Gruszka" , "Gregory Greenman" , linuxppc-dev , 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 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote: > Arnd Bergmann writes: > >> From: Arnd Bergmann >> >> 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