CC geoff, ppc On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 4:46 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 13:47, Kalle Valo wrote: > >> > >> Is anyone willing to submit patches? Use wireless-next as the baseline > >> for patches and one driver per commit, please. That way it's easy to > >> revert later, if needed (hopefully not). > > > > I can do it, I've already done most of the work for moving the > > drivers, so I just need to split up my existing patch and leave out > > the bits that get added to drivers/staging. > > Awesome, thank you! > > > I'll also send Greg a patch to remove rtl8192u now that we know > > that this has been broken for 7 years. Similarly, I'd include > > another patch to remove PCMCIA support for libertas, as that > > would otherwise be the only remaining 16-bit PCMCIA wlan card, > > and I could find no indication of this one ever being popular, > > unlike the USB/SDIO/SPI variants of the same device or the > > other PCMCIA drivers. > > > > This would leave only a handful of wext implementations in the > > tree: ipw2x00, ps3-gelic-wireless, staging/rtl8712, staging/rtl8192e > > and staging/ks7010. Since ipw2x00 is apparently still supported > > in theory and was rather popular on Pentium-M based systems 20 > > years ago, this may still need to be converted to cfg80211 > > before you can remove support for wext style drivers altogether. > > ps3-gelic-wireless and rtl8712 are also still maintained but have > > a much smaller user base I assume. > > Actually I would prefer to remove ipw2x00 and ps3-gelic-wireless as > well. I have not seen any evidence that there would be users for those > drivers. If we find out that there really are users I can easily add the > drivers back. The faster we get rid of wext the better, it really needs > to go away. > > -- > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ > > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
