Re: [PATCH] USB: Move wusbcore and UWB to staging as it is obsolete

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 06 2019 - 07:35:09 EST


On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 03:29:40AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 12:15 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > The UWB and wusbcore code is long obsolete, so let us just move the code
> > out of the real part of the kernel and into the drivers/staging/
> > location with plans to remove it entirely in a few releases.
> []
> > MAINTAINERS | 15 +++-------
> []
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> []
> > @@ -3800,14 +3800,9 @@ F: scripts/sign-file.c
> > F: scripts/extract-cert.c
> >
> > CERTIFIED WIRELESS USB (WUSB) SUBSYSTEM:
> > -L: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > +L: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > S: Orphan
>
> Better to mark this as obsolete so checkpatch emits
> a message saying "no unnecessary modifications"
>
>

Ah, good point, will do that as an add-on patch after this.

thanks,

greg k-h