[PATCH] net: ethernet: toshiba: ps3_gelic_wireless: Remove driver using deprecated API wext

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Philipp,

CC hch

On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM Philipp Hortmann
<philipp.g.hortmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> T2 is working but to make this happen the T2 Author has an own repo for
> patches to apply. In the following video he publishes his view on how
> well the ps3disk is maintained and tested by the linux kernel community.
> My impression of this is that ps3disk is not tested on hardware at all.
> You can find this in a youtube video: “I can't believe VIP Linux kernel
> developer BROKE PS3 support” but watch out that you are in a good mood
> otherwise it is pulling you down like me...
>
> The commit that is breaking the function is:
> commit a7f18b74dbe171625afc2751942a92f71a4dd4ba

Thanks, I see no evidence of this ever being reported upstream, which
makes it rather difficult to be aware of the issue...

> This fixes are not in Mainline up to today. So who beside T2 Linux is
> using this? You can find more of those breaking patches... and videos...

Care to tell us where the fix is?

/me looks at the bad commit...

Oh, dev->bounce_size is used before set. Patch sent.
https://lore.kernel.org/06988f959ea6885b8bd7fb3b9059dd54bc6bbad7.1735894216.git.geert+renesas@glider.be

> The following points are also in the list of reasons:
> - This driver has a maximum 54MBit/s as it supports only 802.11 b/g.
> - Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is
>    not supported.

If you only do VPN over such an insecure link, I guess it's still safe?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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