Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2021-08-06

Re: intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver

From: Kalle Valo <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-06 08:57:42
Also in: lkml, netdev

Lukas Bulwahn [off-list ref] wrote:
Commit 1d89cae1b47d ("MAINTAINERS: mark prism54 obsolete") indicated the
prism54 driver as obsolete in July 2010.

Now, after being exposed for ten years to refactoring, general tree-wide
changes and various janitor clean-up, it is really time to delete the
driver for good.

This was discovered as part of a checkpatch evaluation, investigating all
reports of checkpatch's WARNING:OBSOLETE check.

p54 replaces prism54 so users should be unaffected. There was a one off chipset
someone long ago reported that p54 didn't work with but the reporter never
followed up on that. Additionally, distributions have been blacklisting prism54
for years now.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

d249ff28b1d8 intersil: remove obsolete prism54 wireless driver

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210713054025.32006-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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