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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

The article isn't entirely clear. I get the impression that the person in question may have been the sole maintainer for some hardware-agnostic parts of the wireless stack (which I'd expect to only need active development when a new standard gets greenlighted; should be bugfixes the rest of the time), co-maintainer of the drivers for some atheros chipsets, and the general oversight/coordination guy, but there are other developers working on specific drivers.