On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 1:00 AM Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In a recent patch series that touched this driver [1], it was suggested > that this driver should be removed completely. git logs suggest that > there hasn't been any significant feature addition, improvement or fixes to > user-visible bugs in a while. A web search didn't indicate any recent > discussions or any evidence that there are users out there who care about > this driver. Thus, remove this driver. > > Notes: > > checkpatch complains "WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does > MAINTAINERS need updating?". The files being removed don't have their > own entries in the MAINTAINERS file, so there's nothing to remove. > > checkpatch also complains about the long lore link below. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/99629223-ac1b-0f82-50b8-ea307b3b0197@xxxxxxxxx/T/#t > > Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@xxxxxxxxx> Do we drop/delete a working functionality by only taking in account git activity ? What is a proper way to decline patch series (vs Acked-by) ? Thanks.
