Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46512 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030265AbaDJP0x (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:26:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:29:36 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Andrea Merello , Xose Vazquez Perez , driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless , "John W. Linville" , Larry Finger Subject: Re: staging/rtl8187se should be removed Message-ID: <20140410152936.GA10663@kroah.com> (sfid-20140410_172658_414638_F59DE7BE) References: <53450089.9050008@gmail.com> <20140409170815.GA17551@kroah.com> <20140410152136.GI26890@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20140410152136.GI26890@mwanda> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 06:21:36PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > The thing about keeping e100 in parallel with the other driver is that > some devices didn't work on the other driver and also it wasn't staging > code. > > I don't have strong opinions either way, but if we decide to keep the > old driver around for another kernel release "just in case" then we > should make it print a warning on load or something to say that it's > soon going to be removed. No, I'll just remove it entirely, no need for it to be around at all anymore. thanks, greg k-h