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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/30] net: wireless: cisco: airo: Fix a myriad of coding style issues
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Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> writes:

> On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> That's awesome. Go Linux!
>
> So where does this leave us from a Maintainership perspective? Are
> you still treating the driver as obsolete? After this revelation, I
> suggest not. So let's make it better. :)

Yeah, I can take patches to airo now. I already applied this one.

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