Messages in this thread | | | From | Kalle Valo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/30] net: wireless: cisco: airo: Fix a myriad of coding style issues | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:59:37 +0300 |
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Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk> writes:
> On Thursday 27 August 2020 09:49:12 Kalle Valo wrote: >> Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk> writes: >> >> > On Monday 17 August 2020 20:27:06 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: >> >> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:27:01 +0300 >> >> Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I was surprised to see that someone was using this driver in 2015, so >> >> > I'm not sure anymore what to do. Of course we could still just remove >> >> > it and later revert if someone steps up and claims the driver is still >> >> > usable. Hmm. Does anyone any users of this driver? >> >> >> >> What about moving the driver over into staging, which is generally the >> >> way I understood to move a driver slowly out of the kernel? >> > >> > Please don't remove random drivers. >> >> We don't want to waste time on obsolete drivers and instead prefer to >> use our time on more productive tasks. For us wireless maintainers it's >> really hard to know if old drivers are still in use or if they are just >> broken. >> >> > I still have the Aironet PCMCIA card and can test the driver. >> >> Great. Do you know if the airo driver still works with recent kernels? > > Yes, it does.
Nice, I'm very surprised that so old and unmaintained driver still works. Thanks for testing.
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