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staging: vt6655: Remove unused driver
authorPhilipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:42:17 +0000 (18:42 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:35:44 +0000 (06:35 +0200)
commit5062f8f52519346517758273d2984d2ce5d981ca
tree95f2f5f9162f7c8adbe6c69a1ff3c67ae5209ea7
parentac58041210cb96802c85aa7803e9d768086f043d
staging: vt6655: 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 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 old and large.
- Hardly not to buy.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/2024100923-player-directive-ffa8@gregkh/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010164221.13392-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
30 files changed:
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/vt6655/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/TODO [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/card.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/channel.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/channel.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/desc.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/device.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/device_cfg.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/dpc.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/dpc.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/key.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/key.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/mac.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/mac.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/power.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/power.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/rf.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/rf.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/rxtx.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/rxtx.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/vt6655/test [deleted file]