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To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
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        Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
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On 8/1/23 04:31, Kalle Valo wrote:
> + 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 Also the git tree is outdated so that should be removed.

Kalle,

I removed Herton and Hin-Tak as Maintainers for rtl8187 and updated the tree 
entries for rtl8187 and rtl8180. Patches are submitted.

Larry