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staging: vt6656: Remove unused driver
authorPhilipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:49:24 +0000 (18:49 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:50:59 +0000 (15:50 +0200)
commitf6670baee56edb1f8cb918db61cd89e823b0a4d3
treec1b0a3798c93edc135b07a72a43c6533bff2e902
parent90003c7825c0d07d600586e36e9c0dfb1bf635f7
staging: vt6656: Remove unused driver

Forest Bond contributed this driver in 2009.

The following reasons lead to the removal:
- 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.
- ping times can be 17ms are often above 500ms and worst case 22 seconds.
  One other user does not see such long ping times using a rasperry pi.

I suggest deleting the driver as it no longer meets current expectations
for throuput.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/d18e714d-787f-4d30-a32f-4b0f55d2f5be@gmail.com/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241012164932.26390-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
29 files changed:
MAINTAINERS
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/vt6656/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/TODO [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/baseband.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/baseband.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/card.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/card.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/channel.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/channel.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/desc.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/device.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/key.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/key.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/power.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/power.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/rf.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/rf.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/wcmd.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6656/wcmd.h [deleted file]