Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. :) Yeah, I can take patches to airo now. I already applied this one. -- https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
