kernel/linux.git/drivers/staging/Makefile, branch v6.18.21

staging: fieldbus: Delete unused driver

2024-11-03T23:53:07+00:00

Sven Van Asbroeck contributed this driver in 2019. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload - only 11 patches during the last 3 years. Part of the patches seem to be motivated because of maintenance (for example - remove deprecated function) - Maintainer lost interest, last "Reviewed-by:" is May 2021 - no blog about usage of this driver The staging subsystem is the way for drivers into the kernel - at current speed and interest this is never going to happen. I think that fieldbus is an interesting topic. But when almost nobody cares about this driver, it does not make sense to keep it. Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/96ae2b42-c0ce-4d9a-8933-eb874dc5589b@gmail.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241102191436.23177-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext

2024-11-03T23:52:53+00:00

This driver is in the staging area since 2010. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload for itself and for API wext - A MAC80211 driver was available in 2016 time frame; This driver does not compile anymore but would be a better starting point than the current driver. Here the note from the TODO file: A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su - no progress changing to mac80211 - Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is not supported. The longterm kernels will still support this hardware for years. Find further discussions in the Link below. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@gmail.com/T/#t Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Tested-by: Dominik Karol Piątkowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: olpc_dcon: Remove driver marked as broken since 2022

2024-10-16T08:01:30+00:00

Andres Salomon contributed this driver in 2010. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload - Kconfig still depends on BROKEN since 2022. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yqw4DynMEtAcZVim@kroah.com/ Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241013172759.7524-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: vt6656: Remove unused driver

2024-10-13T13:50:59+00:00

Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g. Peak throughput is 3MBytes/s. - ping times can be 17ms are often above 500ms and worst case 22 seconds. One other user does not see such long ping times using a rasperry pi. I suggest deleting the driver as it no longer meets current expectations for throuput. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/d18e714d-787f-4d30-a32f-4b0f55d2f5be@gmail.com/T/#t Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241012164932.26390-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: gdm724x: Remove unused driver

2024-10-11T04:35:46+00:00

Won Kang from gct contributed the driver in 2013. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload - The manufacturer is not interested and does not care as Emails or inquiries, to support or involved persons of gct, got unanswered. - Did not find a possibility to buy the chips. - Did not find minimal documentation on the web. - Did not find a device where it is build in and the user is able to install any Linux. Therefore it is not possible to do any testing of the driver from the community. - No blog entries about anyone using the gdmtty and gdmulte. - No response about usage of this drivers to the Email from April 2024 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/2024100910-smoky-condiment-2298@gregkh/T/#u Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/78b521eb-4e89-4c01-8dfc-1fb990e6887d@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010191508.21055-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: vt6655: Remove unused driver

2024-10-11T04:35:44+00:00

Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g. Peak throughput is 3MBytes/s but this lasts only for a second. Typically throughput is 1.7MBytes/s. - Depending on the number of devices on the channel the device looses connection and cannot reconnect for 5-60 seconds. Watching a youtube video is OK because of the buffer. But surfing can then be really a pain. - Its form factor is mini PCI (not miniPCIe) that is old and large. - Hardly not to buy. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/2024100923-player-directive-ffa8@gregkh/T/#t Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010164221.13392-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: gpib: Add KBUILD files for GPIB drivers

2024-10-10T13:30:28+00:00

Top level Kconfig and Makefiles. Cc: Peter Bosch Signed-off-by: Dave Penkler Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240918121908.19366-3-dpenkler@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: rts5208: Remove unused driver

2024-10-10T09:42:08+00:00

Wei Wang from Realsil contributed this driver in 2011. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload - Did not find minimal documentation on the web. - No blog entries about anyone using the rts5208 and rts5288 during the last years. - Did not find any device that may has it in and is still available on the market. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/2024100943-shank-washed-a765@gregkh/T/#t Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241009193250.6211-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge net-next/main to resolve conflicts

2024-10-09T06:59:22+00:00

The wireless-next tree was based on something older, and there are now conflicts between -rc2 and work here. Merge net-next, which has enough of -rc2 for the conflicts to happen, resolving them in the process. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

staging: rtl8192e: delete the driver

2024-10-08T19:52:22+00:00

This driver is using lib80211 and any driver that plans to ever leave staging should never have done that, so remove the driver to enable cleaning up lib80211 into libipw inside the old Intel drivers. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241007202707.d0e59cdd2cdc.I8e4d74a6e1d09eefe1f5e2e208735ba2ccef1d4f@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg