Commit f6670bae authored by Philipp Hortmann's avatar Philipp Hortmann Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarPhilipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241012164932.26390-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 90003c78

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@@ -21982,11 +21982,6 @@ L: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org 
S:	Maintained

F:	drivers/staging/sm750fb/









STAGING - VIA VT665X DRIVERS









M:	Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>









S:	Odd Fixes









F:	drivers/staging/vt665?/

















STAGING SUBSYSTEM









M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>









L:	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev

























drivers/staging/Kconfig



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@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/rtl8712/Kconfig"

















source "drivers/staging/octeon/Kconfig"



















source "drivers/staging/vt6656/Kconfig"



















source "drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig"



















source "drivers/staging/sm750fb/Kconfig"
































drivers/staging/Makefile



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@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_OLPC_DCON)	+= olpc_dcon/







obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8723BS)		+= rtl8723bs/









obj-$(CONFIG_R8712U)		+= rtl8712/









obj-$(CONFIG_OCTEON_ETHERNET)	+= octeon/









obj-$(CONFIG_VT6656)		+= vt6656/









obj-$(CONFIG_VME_BUS)		+= vme_user/









obj-$(CONFIG_IIO)		+= iio/









obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SM750)		+= sm750fb/
































drivers/staging/vt6656/Kconfig
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0









config VT6656









	tristate "VIA Technologies VT6656 support"









	depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN && m









	select FW_LOADER









	help









	  This is a vendor-written driver for VIA VT6656.
























drivers/staging/vt6656/Makefile
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0



















vt6656_stage-y +=	main_usb.o \









			card.o  \









			mac.o   \









			baseband.o \









			wcmd.o\









			rxtx.o \









			power.o \









			key.o \









			rf.o \









			usbpipe.o \









			channel.o



















obj-$(CONFIG_VT6656) +=	vt6656_stage.o