Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
> too many cycles on it.

It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.

checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.