USB: cxacru: remove cxacru-cf.bin loader

This has never worked properly because wsize passed to
cxacru_cm() is incorrectly set to the number of values
instead of the data bytes. The maximum number of values
that can be set at once is 7 which means the device will
not get enough data to work with and none of the
configuration values will be used.

At least one existing cxacru-cf.bin file contains invalid
data which will prevent the modem from syncing properly.

Fixing it is likely to break existing systems, and the
new sysfs interface for setting configuration parameters
can provide the same functionality. A script is provided
to convert from the original format.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt b/Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt
index f4fbf4cd592..2cce04457b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ While it is capable of managing/maintaining the ADSL connection without the
 module loaded, the device will sometimes stop responding after unloading the
 driver and it is necessary to unplug/remove power to the device to fix this.
 
+Note: support for cxacru-cf.bin has been removed. It was not loaded correctly
+so it had no effect on the device configuration. Fixing it could have stopped
+existing devices working when an invalid configuration is supplied.
+
+There is a script cxacru-cf.py to convert an existing file to the sysfs form.
+
 Detected devices will appear as ATM devices named "cxacru". In /sys/class/atm/
 these are directories named cxacruN where N is the device number. A symlink
 named device points to the USB interface device's directory which contains