From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E05C76186 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E418020657 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728951AbfG0V1L (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:27:11 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:40434 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725280AbfG0V1L (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:27:11 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:601:9f80:35cd::d71]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D57C1534FD20; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20190727.142709.1469820728325208550.davem@davemloft.net> To: pebolle@tiscali.nl Cc: tilman@imap.cc, hjlipp@web.de, arnd@arndb.de, kkeil@linux-pingi.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20190726220541.28783-1-pebolle@tiscali.nl> References: <20190726220541.28783-1-pebolle@tiscali.nl> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.8 on Emacs 26.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Paul Bolle 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 Applied.