Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Thursday 27 August 2020 09:49:12 Kalle Valo wrote: >> Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > On Monday 17 August 2020 20:27:06 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: >> >> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:27:01 +0300 >> >> Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I was surprised to see that someone was using this driver in 2015, so >> >> > I'm not sure anymore what to do. Of course we could still just remove >> >> > it and later revert if someone steps up and claims the driver is still >> >> > usable. Hmm. Does anyone any users of this driver? >> >> >> >> What about moving the driver over into staging, which is generally the >> >> way I understood to move a driver slowly out of the kernel? >> > >> > Please don't remove random drivers. >> >> We don't want to waste time on obsolete drivers and instead prefer to >> use our time on more productive tasks. For us wireless maintainers it's >> really hard to know if old drivers are still in use or if they are just >> broken. >> >> > I still have the Aironet PCMCIA card and can test the driver. >> >> Great. Do you know if the airo driver still works with recent kernels? > > Yes, it does. Nice, I'm very surprised that so old and unmaintained driver still works. Thanks for testing. -- https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
