On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:00:35 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote: > although I cannot really think about an "implied" metric that we could > track, short of monitoring patches/bug reports coming from outside of > the original driver authors/owners as an indication of how widely > utilized a given driver is. Not metric, just to clarify. I think the discussion started from my email saying: - help with refactoring / adapting their drivers more actively and that may be an empty promise if the person doing the refactoring does not know they could ask. It's not uncommon for a relative newcomer to redo some internal API. Not that it's usually a hard transformation.. Dunno, a bit hypothetical.