On 8/1/23 04:31, Kalle Valo wrote:
+ Herton, Hin-Tak
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 6/16/23 05:20, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
Note MAINTAINERS marks drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180 as
orphaned but drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187 as maintained.
Driver rtl8187 is certainly maintained, not that it gets many bug
reports. Devices that support 802.11g are not used very often, but at
least once a year I use my device to get online to retrieve the
drivers for a fancier wifi card that does not have a driver in Linux
or Windows. Drivers for the USB-based 8187A and 8187B have been in
Linux since version 2.6.38 (December 2010), and also in Windows 7, if
not in older versions.
So this is what we have in MAINTAINERS right now:
RTL8187 WIRELESS DRIVER
M: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
S: Maintained
W: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
F: drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187/
In the git history the last activity from Herton is from 2010 so I think
we should remove him.
Is Hin-Tak still active? The last activity is from 2020.
Also the git tree is outdated so that should be removed.
Kalle,
I removed Herton and Hin-Tak as Maintainers for rtl8187 and updated the tree
entries for rtl8187 and rtl8180. Patches are submitted.
Larry
