"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023, at 13:47, Kalle Valo wrote: >> >> Is anyone willing to submit patches? Use wireless-next as the baseline >> for patches and one driver per commit, please. That way it's easy to >> revert later, if needed (hopefully not). > > I can do it, I've already done most of the work for moving the > drivers, so I just need to split up my existing patch and leave out > the bits that get added to drivers/staging. Awesome, thank you! > I'll also send Greg a patch to remove rtl8192u now that we know > that this has been broken for 7 years. Similarly, I'd include > another patch to remove PCMCIA support for libertas, as that > would otherwise be the only remaining 16-bit PCMCIA wlan card, > and I could find no indication of this one ever being popular, > unlike the USB/SDIO/SPI variants of the same device or the > other PCMCIA drivers. > > This would leave only a handful of wext implementations in the > tree: ipw2x00, ps3-gelic-wireless, staging/rtl8712, staging/rtl8192e > and staging/ks7010. Since ipw2x00 is apparently still supported > in theory and was rather popular on Pentium-M based systems 20 > years ago, this may still need to be converted to cfg80211 > before you can remove support for wext style drivers altogether. > ps3-gelic-wireless and rtl8712 are also still maintained but have > a much smaller user base I assume. Actually I would prefer to remove ipw2x00 and ps3-gelic-wireless as well. I have not seen any evidence that there would be users for those drivers. If we find out that there really are users I can easily add the drivers back. The faster we get rid of wext the better, it really needs to go away. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
