From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle•com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, gregkh <greg@kroah•com>
Subject: Re: Future of the Wimedia LLC Protocol (WLP) subsystem/drivers
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:15:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020091541.ec00fe96.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBDC7B7.5070108@csr.com>
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:30:47 +0100 David Vrabel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've have been nominally the maintainer of the Wimedia LLC Protocol
> (WLP) subsystem and driver since it was originally submitted. I am no
> longer in a position to even pretend to be a maintainer.
>
> The only usable hardware was an Intel i1480 devices with beta firmware
> that was never released as a product. Intel have since sold all there
> UWB/WLP IP and I see little prospect of there ever being hardware
> commercially available for WLP.
>
> Here are a number of options:
>
> 1. Someone else maintains it. Any volunteers?
>
> 2. It gets labelled as Orphaned in MAINTAINERS.
>
> 3. It gets moved to staging.
>
> 4, It gets removed.
>
> If no one says anything I'll submit a patch to Linus to mark it as Orphaned.
I'd say either 3 or 4.
It could go to staging on it way to removal, but that's not really necessary.
cc: gregkh
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~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 16:30 Future of the Wimedia LLC Protocol (WLP) subsystem/drivers David Vrabel
2010-10-20 16:15 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-10-20 19:22 ` Greg KH
2010-10-28 16:29 ` David Miller
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