Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely > entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure. > > As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look > are most likely to have no users left and also get in the way of the > wext cleanup. If anyone is still using any of these, we can revert the > driver removal individually. > > I would suggest merging these for net-next after 6.7-rc1 is out, to give > them the maximum amount of time for users to speak up before a release > comes out. > > This kills off all pcmcia wifi drivers, and all wext users in > drivers/net/wireless, but not the ps3-gelic-wireless driver in > drivers/net/ethernet, or the staging drivers. > > In staging, rtl8192u was already removed in the meantime, while rtl8712 > and rtl8192e are apparently still used. I have not been able to find > out whether ks7010 is still in use. > > Arnd > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231011080955.1beeb010@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > Arnd Bergmann (10): > wifi: libertas: drop 16-bit PCMCIA support > wifi: atmel: remove wext style at76c50x drivers > wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver > wifi: remove obsolete hostap driver > wifi: remove orphaned zd1201 driver > wifi: remove orphaned orinoco driver > wifi: remove orphaned ray_cs driver > wifi: remove orphaned wl3501 driver > wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver > [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers I manually applied these 9 to wireless-next: 4b478bf6bdd8 wifi: libertas: drop 16-bit PCMCIA support 77e49bec6414 wifi: atmel: remove wext style at76c50x drivers 6853c70ba5ed wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver d0172d5f7576 wifi: remove obsolete hostap driver 757a46c2a7a9 wifi: remove orphaned zd1201 driver 1535d5962d79 wifi: remove orphaned orinoco driver 6b9dbaff83d6 wifi: remove orphaned ray_cs driver 238349207cd3 wifi: remove orphaned wl3501 driver bec95598b24a wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver I dropped this patch as we got several reports about people using the driver: [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers The patches are queued for v6.8. Arnd, thanks a lot for cleaning this up! -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
