Messages in this thread | | | From | Tilman Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gigaset: stop maintaining seperately | Date | Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:17:17 +0200 |
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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 >
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