Dear Sirs,
Sven Van Asbroeck contributed this driver in 2019.
The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
- This driver generates maintenance workload
- only 11 patches during the last 3 years. Part of the patches seem to
be motivated because of maintenance (for example - remove deprecated
function)
- Maintainer lost interest, last "Reviewed-by:" is May 2021
- no blog about usage of this driver
The staging subsystem is the way for drivers into the kernel - at
current speed and interest this is never going to happen.
I think that fieldbus is an interesting topic. But when almost nobody
cares about this driver, it does not make sense to keep it.
Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels.
Thanks for any response about your thoughts.
No response will result in a patch for removal in 14 days. This time can
be shorted or extended by appropriate comments.
Bye Philipp
