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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


      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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