Anybody working on wlags49_h2?

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Jun 21 20:06:01 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:54:29PM +0300, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
> On 21/06/14 22:46, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 06:35:41PM +0100, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> >> On 20/06/2014 17:18, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
> >>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree. I noticed that
> >>> nobody seems to have worked towards moving wlags49_h2(5) out of staging
> >>> in over a year. Are there any plans to clean it up and move it out soon?
> >>> Because otherwise we're going to have to delete the driver, as we don't
> >>> want staging to become a permanent place for unfinished code.
> >> Hi Kristina,
> >>
> >> I'm not working on anything for wlags49_h2.
> > 
> > Great, no objection if we delete it?
> 
> Henk also sent the following email to me earlier:
> 
> On 21/06/14 20:28, Henk de Groot wrote:
> > Hi Kistina,
> >
> > Yes, I understand  the need for keeping the staging tree clean. I don't
> > know anybody working on the driver anymore, the only changes in are
> > those prompted by automated processed. I frequently check if the driver
> > is still functional and it is. But frankly I don't know exactly what is
> > needed to get the driver out of the staging phase, except maybe a
> > rewrite of the Agere code, but I don't think anybody will bother with
> > that. After all the chip only supports 801.11b and also only WEP and
> > WPA-TPK security.
> >
> > I think it is okay to remove the driver, I don't think there is much
> > interest in it any more and I don't think anybody will be rewriting it.
> > But it is still a functional driver which just works for these Agere
> > cards.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Henk - pe1dnn at amsat.org

So, let's delete it and see if anyone notices :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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