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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:04:44 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:33:55 -0400 Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging.  So  
> 
> I'd like it out of staging as well. Since nobody wants to maintain it, I
> think it should be deleted. However, my understanding is that Jakub is
> willing to take it back into drivers/net/ as-is given that there is at
> least one user. Jakub, did I understand that correctly?

Yes, of all the bad options this one seems least.. unusual.

To be clear - we can take the revert to net, and then the follow up /
move would go to net-next (after -rc1, for v6.8)? My initial thought 
was to get the move done in 6.7 as well, but I guess that'd be churn 
we don't want at this stage..