On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:52:02PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> I haven't looked at the driver in question in a long time.  Are there
> actually any users?

I honestly don't know who all uses it these days, since it's 
802.11b-only and being USB, eminantly replacable with something more 
modern.

Still, the driver and hardware works, and it's no more obsolete than the 
likes of hostap, orinoco, aironet, zd1201, and others -- All of which 
live on under net/wireless even though they still lack cfg80211 support.

BTW, this is my current WIP diffstat:

 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/Makefile           |    2
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h          |    2 
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c      |   67 ++----
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211conv.c       |   70 ------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211metadef.h    |    3 
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211metastruct.h |    9 
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c     |   79 +++----
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h     |   35 ---
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c         |   86 +++----
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c       |  126 ++++-------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mib.c        |   64 ++---
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c        |  118 ++++------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h      |   89 -------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211req.c        |  251 ----------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211req.h        |   53 ----
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211wep.c        |  301 ---------------------------
 16 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 1107 deletions(-)

Aside from fixing up a boatload of checkpatch warnings, I've been 
stripping out more legacy cruft (eg custom ioctl, host-side WEP, more 
plumbing) that's not relevant any longer.

 - Solomon
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