"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 07:40, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> We (the wireless folks) have been talking about dropping legacy drivers >> on and off for several years now. The problem is that we don't know >> which of them work and which not, for example IIRC someone reported >> recently that wl3501 still works. >> >> Personally I would be extremly happy to remove all the ancient drivers >> as that reduces the amount of code for us to maintain but is that the >> right thing to do for the users? I don't have an answer to that, >> comments very welcome. > > I had a look at what openwrt enables, to see if any of the drivers > in my RFC patch are actually enabled, if anything supports legacy > embedded devices with these it would be openwrt. The good news here > is that openwrt intentionally leaves WEXT disabled, and none of them > are still in use. I don't think openwrt is a good metric in this case. These drivers are for 20+ years old hardware, most likely running on really old x86 laptops. So the chances of them running openwrt on those laptops is low and I would expect them to run more traditional distros like debian or ubuntu. But of course this is just guessing. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
