Re: [PATCH] staging: dgap: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS file

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:30:37AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 06:05:29AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell 
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> > > Cc: Ben Hutchings 
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
> > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Shouldn't we also just delete the driver?
> > 
> > sad times,
> You once said in another thread that "staging is not for dumping crap".
> Can't we have a separate dumping ground in kernel where drivers like
> this and the "mali" from the other thread can stay? Only if the opensourced
> part is added there?

Nope, sorry, why would we want "unmaintained crap that no one wishes to
support" in our tree?  Same goes for "mali", it's totally unmaintained,
and the author of it wishes for it to _not_ be included in the upstream
kernel sources.

greg k-h
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[PATCH] staging: dgap: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS file

[Mark Hounschell]

Removes myself from the MAINTAINERS file for the dgap driver.
There appears to be no way to get the firmware files required
by the dgap driver into the linux-firmware tree. The dgap
driver is useless wihtout this firmware. This product is
considered an obsolete product by Digi. They will not respond
to an inquiry concerning it or its firmware.

Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index cf1a98d..1c19938 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3394,7 +3394,6 @@ F:drivers/staging/dgnc/
 
 DIGI EPCA PCI PRODUCTS
 M: Lidza Louina 
-M: Mark Hounschell 
 M: Daeseok Youn 
 L: driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org
 S: Maintained
-- 
2.1.4

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Re: [PATCH] staging: dgap: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS file

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Removes myself from the MAINTAINERS file for the dgap driver.
> There appears to be no way to get the firmware files required
> by the dgap driver into the linux-firmware tree. The dgap
> driver is useless wihtout this firmware. This product is
> considered an obsolete product by Digi. They will not respond
> to an inquiry concerning it or its firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> Cc: Ben Hutchings 
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Shouldn't we also just delete the driver?

sad times,

greg k-h
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Re: [PATCH] staging: dgap: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS file

[Mark Hounschell]

On 09/15/2015 09:05 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:

Removes myself from the MAINTAINERS file for the dgap driver.
There appears to be no way to get the firmware files required
by the dgap driver into the linux-firmware tree. The dgap
driver is useless wihtout this firmware. This product is
considered an obsolete product by Digi. They will not respond
to an inquiry concerning it or its firmware.

Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
---
  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)


Shouldn't we also just delete the driver?



Well, I guess that's up to you. The package that the firmware files live 
in is still available from Digi's site I suspect.  Plus that recent 
patch to linux-firmware does contain them and that is public record. So 
I suspect the driver could still be used by anyone that had the cards 
and found the firmware files. Again, up to you sir.



sad times,


Agreed. I see no "real" issue with the firmware going in tree. We 
have/had been redistributing/re-packaging that Digi package for years. I 
never actually thought the firmware would be a problem because the whole 
package is GPL. But if that's their policy, nothing I can do. I tried.


Regards
Mark

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