From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
patches@lists.linux.dev, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:19:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAxx1kYjVKFRE3kz@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZAxZCJn7AN/yWSRh@equinox>
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 10:33:44AM +0000, Phillip Potter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:08:49PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> says:
> > > Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is
> > > supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can
> > > be deleted.
> > >
> > > Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of
> > > the overall size, making this a much better overall solution.
> > >
> > > Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the
> > > years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the
> > > real driver was implemented properly.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
> > > Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> > > Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
> > > Cc: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > ---
> >
> > I guess, I am late to the party, but if it matters
> >
> > Acked-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > With regards,
> > Pavel Skripkin
>
> Same here, won't make it into the deletion commit log entry, but:
>
> Acked-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Thanks, the link in the commit will point to this thread for the
archives, so it still does matter :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-11 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-08 13:19 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-08 13:26 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-08 13:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-08 14:17 ` Martin Kaiser
2023-03-08 18:22 ` Larry Finger
2023-03-08 20:33 ` Philipp Hortmann
2023-03-08 22:36 ` Michael Straube
2023-03-10 19:08 ` Pavel Skripkin
2023-03-11 10:33 ` Phillip Potter
2023-03-11 12:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2023-03-14 8:06 ` Richard Weinberger
2023-03-20 19:31 ` Bitterblue Smith
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