linux-next/drivers/staging/Kconfig
Philipp Hortmann 8898f64f7a staging: fieldbus: Delete unused driver
Sven Van Asbroeck contributed this driver in 2019.

The following reasons lead to the removal:
- This driver generates maintenance workload
- only 11 patches during the last 3 years. Part of the patches seem to be
  motivated because of maintenance (for example - remove deprecated
  function)
- Maintainer lost interest, last "Reviewed-by:" is May 2021
- no blog about usage of this driver

The staging subsystem is the way for drivers into the kernel - at current
speed and interest this is never going to happen. I think that fieldbus
is an interesting topic. But when almost nobody cares about this driver,
it does not make sense to keep it. Please consider that support will
remain for years in the longterm kernels.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/96ae2b42-c0ce-4d9a-8933-eb874dc5589b@gmail.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241102191436.23177-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-11-04 00:53:07 +01:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
menuconfig STAGING
bool "Staging drivers"
help
This option allows you to select a number of drivers that are
not of the "normal" Linux kernel quality level. These drivers
are placed here in order to get a wider audience to make use of
them. Please note that these drivers are under heavy
development, may or may not work, and may contain userspace
interfaces that most likely will be changed in the near
future.
Using any of these drivers will taint your kernel which might
affect support options from both the community, and various
commercial support organizations.
If you wish to work on these drivers, to help improve them, or
to report problems you have with them, please see the
drivers/staging/<driver_name>/TODO file to see what needs to be
worked on, and who to contact.
If in doubt, say N here.
if STAGING
source "drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/octeon/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/sm750fb/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/nvec/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/media/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/most/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/greybus/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/vc04_services/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/axis-fifo/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/vme_user/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/gpib/Kconfig"
endif # STAGING