2022-11-13 19:07:55

by Marek Vasut

Subject: [PATCH] wifi: rsi: Mark driver as orphan

Neither Redpine Signals nor Silicon Labs seem to care about proper
maintenance of this driver, nor is there any help, documentation or
feedback on patches. The driver suffers from various problems and
subtle bugs. Mark it as orphaned.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
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Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
Cc: Angus Ainslie <[email protected]>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Cc: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Fuzzey <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Kepplinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <[email protected]>
Cc: Siva Rebbagondla <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
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MAINTAINERS | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b23dfb9b9cfe3..722820b581a94 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -17584,10 +17584,8 @@ S: Maintained
F: drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/

REDPINE WIRELESS DRIVER
-M: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
-M: Siva Rebbagondla <[email protected]>
L: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/net/wireless/rsi/

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2.35.1

2022-11-22 09:41:35

by Kalle Valo

Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: mark rsi wifi driver as orphan

Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote:

> Neither Redpine Signals nor Silicon Labs seem to care about proper
> maintenance of this driver, nor is there any help, documentation or
> feedback on patches. The driver suffers from various problems and
> subtle bugs. Mark it as orphaned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>

Patch applied to wireless.git, thanks.

2d0b08c15743 MAINTAINERS: mark rsi wifi driver as orphan

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https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

2022-11-22 09:41:35

by Kalle Valo

Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: rsi: Mark driver as orphan

Marek Vasut <[email protected]> wrote:

> Neither Redpine Signals nor Silicon Labs seem to care about proper
> maintenance of this driver, nor is there any help, documentation or
> feedback on patches. The driver suffers from various problems and
> subtle bugs. Mark it as orphaned.

This is really unfortunate but I don't see any other option. I hope that in
the future the companies would change their minds and start contributing to
upstream again.

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https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches