On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:37:41PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:03:24PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 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"? > > > > Yes, ofc. I do see couple of Syzbot bug reports now... I will look into them. > It turned out I fixed one of them earlier but should've handled all :)
>From my point of view, the important patch to get applied is this one: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200605120037.17427-1-wi...@infradead.org/
