On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 16:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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. > > 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 was only for CF cards of which there were a couple; I still have cards but don't have a machine with CF anymore. USB/SDIO/SPI (as you point out) have much higher usage. ACK from me (if my historical libertas involvement counts for anything) on removing Libertas CF support. Dan > > 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. > > Arnd >
