On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 14:43 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will > be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases. > > According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there > have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these > have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether. > As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining > networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly > run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack. > > NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the > www.linuxwimax.org > site had already shut down earlier. > > WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks > ("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old > Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the > only driver using the kernel's wimax stack. > > Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header > files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets > to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order > to make it possible to port patches across the move. > > Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing > list and website. > > Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > --- > changes in v2: > - fix a build regression > - add more information about remaining networks (Dan Carpenter)_ > > For v1, Greg said he'd appply the patch when he gets an Ack > from the maintainers. > > Inaky, Johannes, Jakub: are you happy with this version? Sure, looks fine to me. Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Not that I have much relation to this code other than having fixed up genetlink stuff over the years :) johannes _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
