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From: Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
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On 04/06/2017 02:32 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/06/2017 04:49 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06-04-17 11:04, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 08:55 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>> Good thank you. So what is the plan with the github version ?
>>>>
>>>> Note that my submission contains a few small fixes on top of
>>>> the github version, for which I intended to submit a pull-req
>>>> but I've not gotten around to that yet, I've done so now:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/pull/125
>>>>
>>>> But do we want to keep maintaining the github version (for a while
>>>> at least) I wonder, as that does mean double work?
>>>
>>> My plan is to remove everything and point to the upstream tree as soon
>>> as the support has landed in Linus' tree.
>>>
>>> While there is some use in keeping it around for older kernels, we keep
>>> getting asked to support even older kernels than reasonable, or have
>>> users complaining about non-working machines once they use the driver,
>>> which simply uncovers kernel bugs that were fixed upstream.
>>>
>>> I don't think it's a good use of our time to carry on supporting this
>>> out-of-tree. I'll however make sure to try and document the migration
>>> in a way that's helpful to users.
>>
>> Ok, that works for me.
>
> I agree. I have enough to do.

You could simply break the build, and have it spit out a warning saying 
the git repo is kept there to track the old source.

It might be useful to have a repository of the original code to go look at.

Cheers,
Jes