[PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

[PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

[Paul Bolle]

The Dutch consumer grade ISDN network will be shut down on September 1,
2019. This means I'll be converted to some sort of VOIP shortly. At that
point it would be unwise to try to maintain the gigaset driver, even for
odd fixes as I do. So I'll stop maintaining it as a seperate driver and
bump support to CAPI in staging. De facto this means the driver will be
unmaintained, since no-one seems to be working on CAPI.

I've lighty tested the hardware specific modules of this driver (bas-gigaset,
ser-gigaset, and usb-gigaset) for v5.3-rc1. The basic functionality appears to
be working. It's unclear whether anyone still cares. I'm aware of only one
person sort of using the driver a few years ago.

Thanks to Karsten Keil for the ISDN subsystems gigaset was using (I4L and
CAPI). And many thanks to Hansjoerg Lipp and Tilman Schmidt for writing and
upstreaming this driver.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
---
 MAINTAINERS | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 783569e3c4b4..e99afbd13355 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6822,13 +6822,6 @@ F:	Documentation/filesystems/gfs2*.txt
 F:	fs/gfs2/
 F:	include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
 
-GIGASET ISDN DRIVERS
-M:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
-L:	gigaset307x-common@lists.sourceforge.net
-W:	http://gigaset307x.sourceforge.net/
-S:	Odd Fixes
-F:	drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/
-
 GNSS SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/gnss.git
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

[David Miller]

From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:05:41 +0200

> The Dutch consumer grade ISDN network will be shut down on September 1,
> 2019. This means I'll be converted to some sort of VOIP shortly. At that
> point it would be unwise to try to maintain the gigaset driver, even for
> odd fixes as I do. So I'll stop maintaining it as a seperate driver and
> bump support to CAPI in staging. De facto this means the driver will be
> unmaintained, since no-one seems to be working on CAPI.
> 
> I've lighty tested the hardware specific modules of this driver (bas-gigaset,
> ser-gigaset, and usb-gigaset) for v5.3-rc1. The basic functionality appears to
> be working. It's unclear whether anyone still cares. I'm aware of only one
> person sort of using the driver a few years ago.
> 
> Thanks to Karsten Keil for the ISDN subsystems gigaset was using (I4L and
> CAPI). And many thanks to Hansjoerg Lipp and Tilman Schmidt for writing and
> upstreaming this driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>

Applied.

Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately

[Tilman Schmidt]

Thanks to you, Paul, for all your contributions, and specifically for
keeping the driver maintained for four more years after I had to abandon
it for the same reason.

I had a lot of fun working on that driver and I learned a lot in the
course. Now it's time to move on without regrets.

All the best,
Tilman

Am 27.07.2019 um 00:05 schrieb Paul Bolle:
> The Dutch consumer grade ISDN network will be shut down on September 1,
> 2019. This means I'll be converted to some sort of VOIP shortly. At that
> point it would be unwise to try to maintain the gigaset driver, even for
> odd fixes as I do. So I'll stop maintaining it as a seperate driver and
> bump support to CAPI in staging. De facto this means the driver will be
> unmaintained, since no-one seems to be working on CAPI.
> 
> I've lighty tested the hardware specific modules of this driver (bas-gigaset,
> ser-gigaset, and usb-gigaset) for v5.3-rc1. The basic functionality appears to
> be working. It's unclear whether anyone still cares. I'm aware of only one
> person sort of using the driver a few years ago.
> 
> Thanks to Karsten Keil for the ISDN subsystems gigaset was using (I4L and
> CAPI). And many thanks to Hansjoerg Lipp and Tilman Schmidt for writing and
> upstreaming this driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 783569e3c4b4..e99afbd13355 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6822,13 +6822,6 @@ F:	Documentation/filesystems/gfs2*.txt
>  F:	fs/gfs2/
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/gfs2_ondisk.h
>  
> -GIGASET ISDN DRIVERS
> -M:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> -L:	gigaset307x-common@lists.sourceforge.net
> -W:	http://gigaset307x.sourceforge.net/
> -S:	Odd Fixes
> -F:	drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/
> -
>  GNSS SUBSYSTEM
>  M:	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/gnss.git
>