On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:04:00AM +1100, Benjamin Poirier wrote: > This reverts commit 875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf. > > On All Hallows' Eve, fear and cower for it is the return of the undead > driver. > > There was a report [1] from a user of a QLE8142 device. They would like for > the driver to remain in the kernel. Therefore, revert the removal of the > qlge driver. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/566c0155-4f80-43ec-be2c-2d1ad631bf25@xxxxxxxxx/ Who's going to maintain this? > Reported by: Kira <nyakov13@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Notes: > Once the removal and revert show up in the net-next tree, I plan to send a > followup patch to move the driver to drivers/net/ as discussed earlier: > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@xxxxxxxxxx/ are you going to be willing to maintain this and keep it alive? I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging. So how about applying this, and a follow-on one that moves it there once -rc1 is out? And it probably should be in the 'net' tree, as you don't want 6.7 to come out without the driver at all, right? > +QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER > +M: Manish Chopra <manishc@xxxxxxxxxxx> > +M: GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > +M: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@xxxxxxxxx> > +L: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > +S: Supported > +F: Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst > +F: drivers/staging/qlge/ It's obvious taht these people are not maintaining this code, so they should be dropped from the MAINTAINERS file as well. thanks, greg k-h
