Hi Dmitry, (relevant people and lists CC'd) On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 3:16 AM Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kalle, > > what's an actual status of brcm80211 driver? It seems > that the relevant MAINTAINERS entries are no longer > useful, and [1] states that Broadcom is just "disappeared". Arend hasn't posted since February: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/63f72045-e51d-d9a4-a0ed-c221bcdcee03@xxxxxxxxx/ Franky is still reviewing things as of early August: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CA+8PC_evb-6Y3dKnAN4BN=ODEVxY5-cDb6Lc72u0j1WBtx7p1A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Hante hasn't posted since 2018: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/4f6223b8083ed69432493a37d4f45b69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Hector Martin has a bunch of Apple-specific patches downstream in the Asahi Linux kernel and has been looking for guidance on how to upstream it without any real answers: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/181af6e9-799d-b730-dc14-ee2de2541f35@xxxxxxxxx/ There's also speculation that the Raspberry Pi people have downstream patches too, but I haven't been able to find anything concrete in a very brief search. Finally, the Cypress / Infineon people appear to be uninterested in discussing the driver. I think it's pretty safe to say that this driver is nearly unmaintained by Broadcom, definitely unmaintained by Cypress / Infineon and Arend is unable to answer questions relating to anything beyond the code as-written. Kalle, should this driver get orphaned? Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
