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>