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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>,
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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:49:51 +0200
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Hi,

On 06-04-17 11:04, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 08:55 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>> Good thank you. So what is the plan with the github version ?
>>
>> Note that my submission contains a few small fixes on top of
>> the github version, for which I intended to submit a pull-req
>> but I've not gotten around to that yet, I've done so now:
>>
>> https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/pull/125
>>
>> But do we want to keep maintaining the github version (for a while
>> at least) I wonder, as that does mean double work?
>
> My plan is to remove everything and point to the upstream tree as soon
> as the support has landed in Linus' tree.
>
> While there is some use in keeping it around for older kernels, we keep
> getting asked to support even older kernels than reasonable, or have
> users complaining about non-working machines once they use the driver,
> which simply uncovers kernel bugs that were fixed upstream.
>
> I don't think it's a good use of our time to carry on supporting this
> out-of-tree. I'll however make sure to try and document the migration
> in a way that's helpful to users.

Ok, that works for me.

Regards,

Hans