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diff --git a/drivers/staging/wimax/TODO b/drivers/staging/wimax/TODO new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..26e4cb9e9599 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/wimax/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +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. |