Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:04:00AM +1100, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> This reverts commit 875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf.
> 
> On All Hallows' Eve, fear and cower for it is the return of the undead
> driver.
> 
> There was a report [1] from a user of a QLE8142 device. They would like for
> the driver to remain in the kernel. Therefore, revert the removal of the
> qlge driver.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/566c0155-4f80-43ec-be2c-2d1ad631bf25@xxxxxxxxx/

Who's going to maintain this?

> Reported by: Kira <nyakov13@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Once the removal and revert show up in the net-next tree, I plan to send a
>     followup patch to move the driver to drivers/net/ as discussed earlier:
>     https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@xxxxxxxxxx/

are you going to be willing to maintain this and keep it alive?

I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging.  So
how about applying this, and a follow-on one that moves it there once
-rc1 is out?  And it probably should be in the 'net' tree, as you don't
want 6.7 to come out without the driver at all, right?

> +QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER
> +M:	Manish Chopra <manishc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> +M:	Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
> +L:	netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:	Supported
> +F:	Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst
> +F:	drivers/staging/qlge/

It's obvious taht these people are not maintaining this code, so they
should be dropped from the MAINTAINERS file as well.

thanks,

greg k-h