Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:46:41 -0500
From: Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: future of prism2_usb (aka wlan-ng) in staging tree
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:11:23PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> And all of which were nominated by someone (possibly me) to be shuffled
> out of the tree due to lack of users and unknown functional status...

Heh, fair enough!

> I don't want to discourage anyone from working on something that
> scratches their itch, especially if you have working hardware and
> some users.  OTOH, I'd rather not add a long term support burden to
> the kernel if nobody is going to use it...?

On an average month the linux-wlan-ng repository I still host gets 3-4K=20
non-spider hits for the USB firmware files, so in this particular case=20
there are still users out there.

At this point it's a more modern driver than the ones already in the=20
kernel, and I'm willing to maintain it if there's a point to doing so.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

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