Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c

[Jes Sorensen]

Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
>> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
>> too many cycles on it.
>
> It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
> planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.
>
> checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
> message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.

I see, wasn't aware of that. I did add a printk to it for 4.6 notifying
users that the driver was going to go away.

Jes