Re: [RFC] staging: vt6655: Proposal to delete driver vt6655_stage

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 10:09:02AM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009.
> 
> The following points let me propose to delete the driver:
> - This driver generates maintenance workload
> - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g. Peak
> throughput is 3MBytes/s but this lasts only for a second. Typically
> throughput is 1.7MBytes/s.
> - Depending on the number of devices on the channel the device looses
> connection and cannot reconnect for 5-60 seconds. Watching a youtube video
> is OK because of the buffer. But surfing can then be really a pain.
> - Its form factor is mini PCI (not miniPCIe) that is really old and large.
> - Hardly not to buy. (https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=vnt6655&_sacat=0)
> only 70$ ;-) including shipment.
> 
> Former Maintainer Forest Bond <forest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> is unreachable.
> 
> The staging subsystem needs to focus on drivers that support usable hardware
> that is available. Newbies can then get the hardware for some dollars and
> play around which is fun.
> 
> Please consider that support will remain for years in the longterm kernels.

No objection from me, please send a patch deleting it and I will be glad
to take it.

thanks,

greg k-h