On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:56:28 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:20:13PM +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 these entries > > are all stale, after everyone has migrated to LTE or discontinued their > > service altogether. > > > > 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> > > Is this ok for me to take through the staging tree? If so, I need an > ack from the networking maintainers. > > If not, feel free to send it through the networking tree and add: > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thinking about it now - we want this applied to -next, correct? In that case it may be better if we take it. The code is pretty dead but syzbot and the trivial fix crowd don't know it, so I may slip, apply something and we'll have a conflict. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
