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From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc:     Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
        Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
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        Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>,
        Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: MAINTAINERS: rtl8187 wireless driver
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Date:   Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:31:34 +0300
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        Finger's message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:06:59 -0500")
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+ Herton, Hin-Tak

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:

> On 6/16/23 05:20, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
>> Note MAINTAINERS marks drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180 as
>> orphaned but drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187 as maintained.
>
> Driver rtl8187 is certainly maintained, not that it gets many bug
> reports. Devices that support 802.11g are not used very often, but at
> least once a year I use my device to get online to retrieve the
> drivers for a fancier wifi card that does not have a driver in Linux
> or Windows. Drivers for the USB-based 8187A and 8187B have been in
> Linux since version 2.6.38 (December 2010), and also in Windows 7, if
> not in older versions.

So this is what we have in MAINTAINERS right now:

RTL8187 WIRELESS DRIVER
M:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>
M:	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
M:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained
W:	https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/
T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
F:	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187/

In the git history the last activity from Herton is from 2010 so I think
we should remove him.

Is Hin-Tak still active? The last activity is from 2020.

Also the git tree is outdated so that should be removed.

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