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[84.160.113.44]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-a99a7ec56eesm241064366b.31.2024.10.11.11.59.44 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:59:44 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US Cc: Malcolm Priestley , Teddy Engel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Michael Straube , Sathish Kumar , Florian Ziegler , Pritthijit Nath , Arnd Bergmann , tdavies@darkphysics.net, m.omerfarukbulut@gmail.com, =?UTF-8?Q?Dominik_Karol_Pi=C4=85tkowski?= From: Philipp Hortmann Subject: [RFC] staging: vt6656: Proposal to delete driver vt6656_stage To: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Sirs, Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009. The following points let me propose to delete the driver: - This driver generates maintenance workload - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g. Peak throughput is 3MBytes/s. - ping times can be 17ms are often above 500ms and worst case 22 seconds. I suggest deleting the driver as it no longer meets current expectations. Former Maintainer Forest Bond is unreachable. The staging subsystem needs to focus on drivers that support usable hardware that is available. Newbies can then get the hardware and play around which is fun. Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels. Thanks for any response about your thoughts. No response will result in a patch for removal in 14 days. Bye Philipp