From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Driver Project Developer List
	<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8723au
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:58:18 -0400
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 13:42 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> writes:
>> > People should not waste time and energy working on this staging driver.
>> > A replacement(rtl8xxxu) using the kernel wireless stack already was merged
>> > in the 4.3 kernel.
> []
>> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO | 3 +++
>> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>
> why not git rm drivers/staging/rtl8723au/ ?

Because you don't just pull the rug out under people. I plan to mark it
obsolete and then remove it in a follow-on release.

Jes