On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 14:43 +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 many of these
have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether.
As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining
networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly
run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack.

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>
---
changes in v2:
- fix a build regression
- add more information about remaining networks (Dan Carpenter)_

For v1, Greg said he'd appply the patch when he gets an Ack
from the maintainers.

Inaky, Johannes, Jakub: are you happy with this version?

Sure, looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

Not that I have much relation to this code other than having fixed up
genetlink stuff over the years :)

johannes