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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D9DC001E0 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233715AbjJWOnK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:43:10 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49934 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233748AbjJWOmi (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:42:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDBB01FD6; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF551C433C8; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:41:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1698072091; bh=N4If+wgwsD8dFTdUHEouchVNBSUFE+9hWZEa6Th40ts=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=qD+ozjajwsL/rFVAaZsugmIyEH3vwd5drmhXUIXfjLh1gKwHJWIN1dobJ88kx4Egh RHA4m/cy5OiAXs+dPr2hUVPCKRKLzCsK4ipHu/V3SBzjatw9ibogQb9E3+cQVZZSnW bhogHTKie9F8J4xFYhhGmRkymJ2uqsEoy6vRAmBgpTjNE6DooXvbMnRHTmt80js1v6 fUJE2AEkblMuFSj6kajAKMdP8frLSty/xG8TbjwDC7PenDxpsGKxWxCWhf0BxcJUWQ N2wZvRaECSlzwYO5tL4q7HJCK+XVhR8pNAV7KKU/ZGN5RO8kx5lGbXFRPOluU7RHcB A9gJHTEZj/aqA== From: Kalle Valo To: "Arnd Bergmann" Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" , "David S . Miller" , "Alexandre Belloni" , "Claudiu Beznea" , "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "Geoff Levand" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Jakub Kicinski" , "Jeff Johnson" , "Johannes Berg" , "Larry Finger" , "Nicolas Ferre" , "Pavel Machek" , "Stanislaw Gruszka" , "Gregory Greenman" , linuxppc-dev , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers References: <20231023131953.2876682-1-arnd@kernel.org> <87v8axzc46.fsf@kernel.org> <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:41:24 +0300 In-Reply-To: <50eafe40-9c50-48e2-8d48-6a113c8fd87d@app.fastmail.com> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:10:16 +0200") Message-ID: <87edhlz9ij.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Arnd Bergmann" writes: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Arnd Bergmann writes: >> >>> From: Arnd Bergmann >>> >>> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely >>> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure. >>> >>> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look >>> are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the >>> wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the >>> driver removal individually. >>> >>> I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out >> >> Why net-next? I want to take these to wireless-next to avoid any >> conflicts with other wireless patches. > > My mistake, I actually rebased them on top of wireless-next before > sending out the patches, I just forgot update the text I had > already written a week earlier. Ah, good that we are on the same page then :) >> We could take these to wireless-next after we submit the last new >> features (-next) pull request to v6.7, so most likely already next week. >> So if anyone has any problems with these speak up now. > > Sounds good to me, thanks! Thanks for the patches! I applied them to our pending branch for some build testing, there were few conflicts I guess due to recent cleanup patches but obviously easy to fix :) https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git/log/?h=pending -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches