Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 4 authors, 2020-10-29

Re: [RFC] wimax: move out to staging

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2020-10-29 00:57:11
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:20:13PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that these entries
are all stale, after everyone has migrated to LTE or discontinued their
service altogether.

NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
www.linuxwimax.org
site had already shut down earlier.

WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks
("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old
Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the
only driver using the kernel's wimax stack.

Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header
files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets
to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order
to make it possible to port patches across the move.

Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing
list and website.

Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Is this ok for me to take through the staging tree?  If so, I need an
ack from the networking maintainers.

If not, feel free to send it through the networking tree and add:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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