user/sven/linux.git/drivers/net/Space.c, branch v3.18.48

drivers: net: Include new header file in sbni.c

2013-12-19T23:51:20Z

Create a new header file include/net/Space.h which contains prototype declaration of sbni_probe(). Include the new header file in drivers/net/Space.c and drivers/net/wan/sbni.c because they use this function. This eliminates the following warning in wan/sbni.c: drivers/net/wan/sbni.c:224:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘sbni_probe’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/ethernet: Drop H8/300 Ethernet driver

2013-09-17T01:20:24Z

Architecture is gone, so this driver is no longer needed. Cc: Yoshinori Sato Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck

drivers/net: delete old x86 variant of the seeq8005 driver

2013-01-22T15:39:56Z

The last update to the Ethernet HowTo (over 10 years ago) listed this: ------------------------ SEEQ 8005 Status: Obsolete, Driver Name: seeq8005 There is little information about the card included in the driver, and hence little information to be put here.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

drivers/net: delete Digital EtherWorks-3 support.

2013-01-22T15:39:55Z

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

drivers/net: delete the really obsolete 8390 based 10Mbit ISA drivers

2013-01-22T15:39:54Z

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

drivers/net: delete old fujitsu based eth16i driver

2013-01-22T15:39:54Z

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 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

drivers/net: delete at1700 ISA 10Mbit driver

2013-01-22T15:39:53Z

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

drivers/net: delete old 8 bit ISA Racal ni5010 support.

2013-01-22T15:39:52Z

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 Cc: Jan-Pascal van Best Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

drivers/net: delete Racal Interlan ISA ni52 (i825xx) driver

2013-01-22T15:39:52Z

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

drivers/net: delete ISA intel eexpress and eepro i825xx drivers

2013-01-22T15:39:51Z

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