From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 08:57:37 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210806085737.25802C43460@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210713054025.32006-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit 1d89cae1b47d ("MAINTAINERS: mark prism54 obsolete") indicated the
> prism54 driver as obsolete in July 2010.
>
> Now, after being exposed for ten years to refactoring, general tree-wide
> changes and various janitor clean-up, it is really time to delete the
> driver for good.
>
> This was discovered as part of a checkpatch evaluation, investigating all
> reports of checkpatch's WARNING:OBSOLETE check.
>
> p54 replaces prism54 so users should be unaffected. There was a one off chipset
> someone long ago reported that p54 didn't work with but the reporter never
> followed up on that. Additionally, distributions have been blacklisting prism54
> for years now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
d249ff28b1d8 intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210713054025.32006-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-06 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-13 5:40 [PATCH] intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver Lukas Bulwahn
2021-07-15 22:06 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-16 7:25 ` Christian Lamparter
2021-07-27 6:07 ` Kalle Valo
2021-07-27 12:42 ` Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-28 14:54 ` Kalle Valo
2021-08-06 8:57 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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