[PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8723au

2016-03-19 Thread Xose Vazquez Perez 
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.

Cc: Jes Sorensen 
Cc: Larry Finger 
Cc: Kalle Valo 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Linux Driver Project Developer List 
Cc: Linux Wireless 
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez 
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO
index f5d57d3..42b86e4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ TODO:
 - merge Realtek's bugfixes and new features into the driver
 - switch to use MAC80211
 
+A mac80211 driver for this hardware already was integrated at
+drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/
+
 Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman ,
 Jes Sorensen , and Larry Finger 
.
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2.5.0

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Re: [PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8723au

2016-03-19 Thread Jes Sorensen 
Xose Vazquez Perez  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.
>
> Cc: Jes Sorensen 
> Cc: Larry Finger 
> Cc: Kalle Valo 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> Cc: Linux Driver Project Developer List 
> 
> Cc: Linux Wireless 
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez 
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723au/TODO | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Jes Sorensen 
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Re: [PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8723au

2016-03-18 Thread Joe Perches 
On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 23:58 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Joe Perches  writes:
> > On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 13:42 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > > Xose Vazquez Perez  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 
> > 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.

Duh.

I note you removed the obsolete suggestion which
is probably more valuable then updating the TODO.

Updating the TODO to something like:

Actual bug fixes only, no other changes accepted.
This driver is going to be removed by 4.8 or so

is also probably more valuable than keeping all the
current items and just adding a note that another
driver exists.

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Re: [PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8723au

2016-03-18 Thread Jes Sorensen 
Joe Perches  writes:
> On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 13:42 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Xose Vazquez Perez  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 
>
> 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
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Re: [PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8723au

2016-03-18 Thread Joe Perches 
On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 13:42 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Xose Vazquez Perez  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 

why not git rm drivers/staging/rtl8723au/ ?

How about changing MAINTAINERS from:

STAGING - REALTEK RTL8723U WIRELESS DRIVER
M:  Larry Finger 
M:  Jes Sorensen 
L:  linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org
S:  Maintained
F:  drivers/staging/rtl8723au/

to

S:  Obsolete

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