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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/wimax/TODO')
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/wimax/TODO b/drivers/staging/wimax/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index 26e4cb9e9599..000000000000 --- a/drivers/staging/wimax/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will -be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases. - -According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there -have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these -have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether. As most -PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining networks tend -to use standalone routers. These almost certainly run Linux, but not a -modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack. - -NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015 -https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the www.linuxwimax.org -site had already shut down earlier. - -WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks -("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old -Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the -only driver using the kernel's wimax stack. |