From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] wimax: move out to staging
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:56:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201029085627.698080a7@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201028055628.GB244117@kroah.com>
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:56:28 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
> > www.linuxwimax.org
> > site had already shut down earlier.
> >
> > WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks
> > ("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old
> > Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the
> > only driver using the kernel's wimax stack.
> >
> > Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header
> > files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets
> > to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order
> > to make it possible to port patches across the move.
> >
> > Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing
> > list and website.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Is this ok for me to take through the staging tree? If so, I need an
> ack from the networking maintainers.
>
> If not, feel free to send it through the networking tree and add:
>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thinking about it now - we want this applied to -next, correct?
In that case it may be better if we take it. The code is pretty dead
but syzbot and the trivial fix crowd don't know it, so I may slip,
apply something and we'll have a conflict.
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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 [this message]
2020-10-29 16:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-29 16:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-28 10:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-10-28 13:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
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