Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:41882 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751870Ab0GWNaN (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:30:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:28:48 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Simon Kelley Cc: Dan Williams , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: orphan the atmel wireless driver Message-ID: <20100723132847.GC6678@tuxdriver.com> References: <1279823468-21366-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> <1279837721.4829.19.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> <4C495BD7.2080004@thekelleys.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4C495BD7.2080004@thekelleys.org.uk> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:07:35AM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:31 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > > > > Aww, how sad :(. I'll take it since I still have some of this > > hardware. Not that I'll do much with it, but if the patches are simple > > I'm happy to test+ack them. > > > Thanks Dan, whilst I still have the hardware, I no longer have a > convenient PCMCIA slot into which to plug it. > > This hardware is well orphaned: it never made is past 802.11b, and there > have been no new models for a long time. Nevertheless, if the existing > code can be kept functional, that would be good. Is the existing code functional? The device I have seems to only half work -- I suppose I need to figure that out... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.