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hostap: Mark the Host AP driver obsolete

PATCH In review Jouni Malinen 2 participants 2 messages Sep 27, 2016 – Sep 28, 2016

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PATCH 1/1 hostap: Mark the Host AP driver obsolete

This is old code for old hardware and it is not really accurate to claim this to be maintained anymore. Change the status to "Obsolete" to make it clearer that minor cleanup and other unnecessary changes from automated tools is not necessarily beneficial and has larger risk of breaking something without being quickly noticed due to lack of testing.

In addition, remove the old mailing list that does not work anymore and point the web-page to a more accurate URL.

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 MAINTAINERS | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
MAINTAINERS +2 -3
index efd69c76..20de5f9 100644
@@ -5593,10 +5593,9 @@ F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/scsi/hisilicon-sas.txt
 
 HOST AP DRIVER
 M:	Jouni Malinen <[email protected]>
-L:	[email protected] (subscribers-only)
 L:	[email protected]
-W:	http://hostap.epitest.fi/
-S:	Maintained
+W:	http://w1.fi/hostap-driver.html
+S:	Obsolete
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/
 
 HP COMPAQ TC1100 TABLET WMI EXTRAS DRIVER
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1.9.1


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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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Re: MAINTAINERS: hostap: Mark the Host AP driver obsolete

Quoted 10 lines · Jouni Malinen

This is old code for old hardware and it is not really accurate to claim this to be maintained anymore. Change the status to "Obsolete" to make it clearer that minor cleanup and other unnecessary changes from automated tools is not necessarily beneficial and has larger risk of breaking something without being quickly noticed due to lack of testing.

In addition, remove the old mailing list that does not work anymore and point the web-page to a more accurate URL.

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

ffd74aca44b7 MAINTAINERS: hostap: Mark the Host AP driver obsolete

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9352117/

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