On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:22:36PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 14:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > wrote: > > > > > There does not seem to be any developers willing to maintain the > > > net/qrtr/ code, so move it to drivers/staging/ so that it can be removed > > > from the kernel tree entirely in a few kernel releases if no one steps > > > up to maintain it. > > > > > > Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> > > > Cc: Du Cheng <duche...@gmail.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > > > > > > As far as I know, QRTR/IPCR is still commonly used with Qualcomm-based > > platforms for accessing various components of the SoC. > > CCing Bjorn and Mani, In case they are interested in taking maintenance of > > that. > > > > As Loic said, QRTR is an integral component used in various Qualcomm based > upstream supported products like ChromeOS, newer WLAN chipsets (QCA6390) > etc... > > It is unfortunate that no one stepped up so far to maintain it. After > having an internal discussion, I decided to pitch in as a maintainer. I'll > send the MAINTAINERS change to netdev list now.
Great, can you also fix up the reported problems with the codebase that resulted in this "ask for removal"? thanks, greg k-h
