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2013-01-22drivers/net: delete old x86 variant of the seeq8005 driverPaul Gortmaker
The last update to the Ethernet HowTo (over 10 years ago) listed this: ------------------------ SEEQ 8005 Status: Obsolete, Driver Name: seeq8005 There is little information about the card included in the driver, and hence little information to be put here. If you have a question, you are probably best trying to e-mail the driver author as listed in the source. It was marked obsolete as of the 2.4 series kernels. ------------------------ If it was obsolete over a decade ago, the situation can not have improved with the passage of time, so let us act on that. Even with today's improved search engines, I was unable to locate any real meaningful information on the ISA implementation of this rare chip. There are ARM and SGI variants of the driver in tree, but they do not depend on the original x86 driver source or header file. We leave those non-x86 drivers to be deleted by the arch maintainers when they decide to expire those legacy platforms as a whole. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete Digital EtherWorks-3 support.Paul Gortmaker
This is another one that makes sense to target for obsolescence, since it (a)appeared pre-1995, and (b)was rather rare, and (c)did not really have any statistically significant active linux user base. Removing this ISA 10Mbit driver support is unlikely to be even noticed by the user base of 3.9+ linux kernels, especially when the documentation clearly indicates the vintage with this text: "...designed to work with all kernels > 1.1.33" Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete the really obsolete 8390 based 10Mbit ISA driversPaul Gortmaker
This is an area I know all too well, after being author of several 8390 drivers, and maintainer of all 8390 drivers during a large part of their active lifecycle. To that end, I can say this with a reasonable degree of confidence. The drivers deleted here represent the earliest (as in early 1990) hardware and/or rare hardware. The remaining hardware not deleted here is the more modern/sane of the lot, with ISA-PnP and jumperless "soft configuration" like the wd and smc cards had. The original ne2000 driver (ne.c) gets a pass at this time since AT/LANTIC based cards that could be both ne2000 or wd-like (with shared memory) and with jumperless configuration were made in the mid to late 1990's, and performed reasonably well for their era. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete old fujitsu based eth16i driverPaul Gortmaker
This is another driver for relatively rare 10Mbit hardware that originated in the early 1990's. So we select it for removal at this point in time as well. Cc: Mika Kuoppala <miku@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete at1700 ISA 10Mbit driverPaul Gortmaker
These Fujitsu MB86965 based ISA 10Mbit cards were another of the relatively rare cards dating from the early 1990s that for one reason or another didn't seem to get a lot of use in linux. So we retire it now with a reasonable degree of confidence that it won't impact anyone. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete old 8 bit ISA Racal ni5010 support.Paul Gortmaker
These cards were only available in 8bit format, and in addition they only had AUI and BNC(10-Base2) interfaces (i.e. no RJ-45). In fact, they are so rare, that an internet search on these old cards almost comes up empty, unless the "Micom interlan" name is used. This puts them in the equivalent domain as the 3c501, so there should be no strong opposition to the driver removal, as nobody is seriously using 3.9+ with 8 bit ISA hardware. In doing so, the whole "ethernet/racal" category becomes empty, so we clean up the Makefile/Kconfig and subdir appropriately. Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Cc: Jan-Pascal van Best <janpascal@vanbest.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete Racal Interlan ISA ni52 (i825xx) driverPaul Gortmaker
Like the other drivers that were in the ISA i825xx family, the ni52 was rather rare, not widely used, and hence perhaps not as reliable as the more mainstream ISA drivers that were heavily used. Given that, it is chosen for retirement at this time as well. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete ISA intel eexpress and eepro i825xx driversPaul Gortmaker
These old drivers should not be confused with the very common PCI cards that are supported by e100.c -- these older 10Mbit ISA only drivers were not as commonly used as some of the other ISA drivers, simply due to hardware availability and pricing. Given the rarity of the hardware, and the subsequent less extensive use of the drivers, it makes sense to obsolete them at this point in time, along with other rare/experimental ISA drivers. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete the 3Com 3c505/3c507 intel i825xx supportPaul Gortmaker
For those of us who were around in the early to mid 1990's, we will remember that the i825xx ethernet support was not something that was considered sufficiently vetted for 24/7 use. Folks might be inclined to use *functional* ISA hardware on some near expired P3 ISA machines for dedicated workhorse applications, but the odds of using (and relying on) one of these old/experimental drivers is essentially nil. So lets remove them. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 driversPaul Gortmaker
The parallel port is largely replaced by USB, and even in the day where these drivers were current, the documented speed was less than 100kB/s. Let us not pretend that anyone cares about these drivers anymore, or worse - pretend that anyone is using them on a modern kernel. As a side bonus, this is the end of legacy parallel port ethernet, so we get to drop the whole chunk relating to that in the legacy Space.c file containing the non-PCI unified probe dispatch. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver.Paul Gortmaker
It was amusing that linux was able to make use of this 1980's technology on machines long past its intended lifespan, but it probably should go now. To set some context, the 3c501 was designed in the 1980's to be used on 8088 PC-XT 8bit ISA machines. It was built using a large number of discrete TTL components and truly looks like a relic of the ancient past before large scale integration was common. But from a functional point of view, the real issue, as stated in the (also obsolete) Ethernet-HowTo, is that "...the 3c501 can only do one thing at a time -- while you are removing one packet from the single-packet buffer it cannot receive another packet, nor can it receive a packet while loading a transmit packet." You know things are not good when the Kconfig help text suggests you make a cron job doing a ping every minute. Hardware that old and crippled is simply not going to be used by anyone in a time where 10 year old 100Mbit PCI cards (that are still functional) are largely give-away items. Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-22drivers/net: delete 486 Apricot supportPaul Gortmaker
The Apricot was a 486 PC with 4MB RAM, and an on-board ethernet via an intel i82596 hard-wired to i/o 0x300. Those who were using linux in the 1990's will recall that the i82596 driver was not one of the more stable or widely used drivers of its day. Combine that with the extremely limited resources of the platform, and it is truly time to expire the support for this thing. There are some old m68k targets who were also using this chip, so rather than poll the m68k user base, we simply cut out the x86/Apricot support here in this commit. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-01-14drivers/net: Clean up orphaned probes in Space.cPaul Gortmaker
The removal of the 8390 EISA drivers actually comprises the complete content of the EISA probe block, so we can now remove that block, and its hook into the unified probe. Note that the deleted comment mentions PCI probes, but they long since moved elsewhere, so no PCI probes are touched here. We get rid of the orphaned EISA probe prototypes, and a couple of left over MCA probe prototypes at the same time. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-17drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCAPaul Gortmaker
The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20 year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's software demands on CPU and memory resources. This commit removes any MCA specific net drivers, and removes any MCA specific probe/support code from drivers that were doing a dual ISA/MCA role. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-05-15tokenring: delete all remaining driver supportPaul Gortmaker
This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support. It gets rid of: - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on - the drivers/net component - the Kbuild infrastructure around it - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers. - any associated token ring documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-01CS89x0 : add platform driver supportJaccon Bastiaansen
The CS89x0 ethernet controller is used on a number of evaluation boards, such as the MX31ADS. The current driver has memory address and IRQ settings for each board on which this controller is used. Driver updates are therefore required to support other boards that also use the CS89x0. To avoid these driver updates, a better mechanism (platform driver support) is added to communicate the board dependent settings to the driver. Signed-off-by: Jaccon Bastiaansen <jaccon.bastiaansen@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2011-01-03net/Space: delete orphaned externs from deleted driversPaul Gortmaker
The drivers associated with the prototypes in this commit have been deleted some time ago, but the externs escaped detection. Using a simple "git grep" shows that these references are historical artefacts, only mentioned by the deleted lines. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-14net: Removing dead {AR,WAVE}LANChristoph Egger
{AR,WAVE}LAN doesn't exist in Kconfig, therefore removing all references for it from the source code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-16more ACSI removalAdrian Bunk
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI removal. It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by commit c2bcf3b8978c291e1b7f6499475c8403a259d4d6: config ATARI_SLM tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support" - depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n + depends on ATARI Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-05-04m68k: macmace fixesFinn Thain
Fix a race condition in the transmit code, where the dma interrupt could update the free tx buffer count concurrently and wedge the tx queue. Fix the misuse of the rx frame status and rx frame length registers: no more "fifo overrun" errors caused by the OFLOW bit being tested in the frame length register (instead of the status register), and no more missed packets due to incorrect length taken from status register (instead of the frame length register). Fix a panic (skb_over_panic BUG) caused by allocating and then copying an incoming packet while the packet length register was changing. Cut-and-paste the reset code from the powermac mace driver (mace.c), so the NIC functions when MacOS does not initialise it (important for anyone wanting to use the Emile boot loader). Cut-and-paste the error counting and timeout recovery code from mace.c. Fix over allocation of rx buffer memory (it's page order, not page count). Converted to driver model. Converted to DMA API. Since I've run out of ways to make it fail, and since it performs well now, promote the driver from EXPERIMENTAL status. Tested on both quadra 840av and 660av. Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-05remove the broken SKMC driverAdrian Bunk
The SKMC driver has: - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and - is still marked as BROKEN. Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-01-03[NET] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()Adrian Bunk
This patch converts drivers/net/loopback.c to using module_init(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NET]: The scheduled removal of the frame diverter.Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the frame diverter. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-02[PATCH] hp100: fix conditional compilation messJeff Garzik
The previous hp100 changeset attempted to kill warnings, but was only tested on !CONFIG_ISA platforms. The correct conditional compilation setup involves tested CONFIG_ISA rather than just MODULE. Fixes link on CONFIG_ISA platforms (i386) in current -git. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-13drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespaceJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-08-23[PATCH] macsonic/jazzsonic network drivers updateFinn Thain
The purpose of this patch: - Adopt the DMA API (jazzsonic, macsonic & core driver). - Adopt the driver model (macsonic). This part was cribbed from jazzsonic. As a consequence, macsonic once again works as a module. Driver model is also used by the DMA calls. - Support 16 bit cards (macsonic & core driver, also affects jazzsonic) This code was adapted from the mac68k linux 2.2 kernel, where it has languished for a long time. - Support more 32-bit mac cards (macsonic) Also from mac68k repo. - Zero-copy buffer handling (core driver) Provides a nice performance improvement. The new algorithm incidentally helped to replace the old Jazz DMA code. The patch was tested on a variety of macs (several 32-bit quadra built-in NICs, a 16-bit LC PDS NIC and a 16-bit comm-slot NIC), and also on MIPS Jazz. Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-19[PATCH] tms380tr: remove prototypes in Space.cJochen Friedrich
Cleanup: remove two prototypes. Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-07-31[PATCH] tms380tr: move to DMA APIJochen Friedrich
This patch makes tms380tr use the new DMA API. Now that on Alpha, this API also supports bus master DMA for ISA (platform) devices, i changed the driver to use this new API. This also works around a bug in the firmware loader: The example provided in Documentation/firmware_class no longer works, as the firmware loader now calls get_kobj_path_length() and the kernel promptly oopses, as the home-grown device doesn't have a parent. Of course, this doesn't happen with a "real" device which has its bus (or pseudo bus in the case of platform) as parent. Converted tms380tr to use new DMA API: - proteon.c, skisa.c: use platform pseudo bus to create a struct device - Space.c: delete init hooks - abyss.c, tmspci.c: pass struct device to tms380tr.c - tms380tr.c, tms380tr.h: new DMA API, use real device fo firmware loader Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-05-12 [PATCH] remove two obsolete net driversAdrian Bunk
The options FMV18X and SK_G16 do depend on the non-available CONFIG_OBSOLETE even in kernel 2.4 - IOW, the last time it was able to select them was in kernel 2.2 (or even before). Since it seems noone misses these drivers, this patch removes them. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-05-05[PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct one in ./CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!