Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 1d89cae1b47d ("MAINTAINERS: mark prism54 obsolete") indicated the
> prism54 driver as obsolete in July 2010.
>
> Now, after being exposed for ten years to refactoring, general tree-wide
> changes and various janitor clean-up, it is really time to delete the
> driver for good.
>
> This was discovered as part of a checkpatch evaluation, investigating all
> reports of checkpatch's WARNING:OBSOLETE check.
>
> p54 replaces prism54 so users should be unaffected. There was a one off chipset
> someone long ago reported that p54 didn't work with but the reporter never
> followed up on that. Additionally, distributions have been blacklisting prism54
> for years now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
d249ff28b1d8 intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver
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