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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] wimax: move out to staging
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:34:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028103456.GB1042@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201027212448.454129-1-arnd@kernel.org>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:20:13PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
> be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.
> 
> According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
> have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that these entries
> are all stale, after everyone has migrated to LTE or discontinued their
> service altogether.

Wimax is still pretty common in Africa.  But you have to buy an outdoor
antenae with all the software on it and an ethernet cable into your
house.  I don't know what software the antennaes are using.  Probably
Linux but with an out of tree kernel module is my guess.

regards,
dan carpenter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-28 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-27 21:20 [RFC] wimax: move out to staging Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-28  5:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-29 15:56   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-29 16:26     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-29 16:30       ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-28 10:34 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-10-28 13:20   ` Arnd Bergmann

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