On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, Kalle Valo wrote: > 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. That's awesome. Go Linux! So where does this leave us from a Maintainership perspective? Are you still treating the driver as obsolete? After this revelation, I suggest not. So let's make it better. :) -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
