Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalle Valo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove obsolete and orphaned wifi drivers | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:41:24 +0300 |
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"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes: >> >>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> >>> >>> 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
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