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Author SHA1 Message Date
Maciej W. Rozycki 28db0338db Revert "drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver"
This reverts commit 91f3a27ae9.

Contrary to the assumption stated with the original commit description
this driver is in use and I'm going to maintain it for the foreseeable
future.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/alpine.DEB.2.21.2605201204260.1450@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-05-21 08:28:56 -07:00
Andrew Lunn a3fb9a5bf6 drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
The smc91c92 was written by David A Hinds in 1999. It is an PCMCIA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.

Remove the Documentation as well, since it refers to kernel versions
1.2.13 until 1.3.71 and FTP sites which no longer exist.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-8-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-23 15:57:06 -07:00
Andrew Lunn 91f3a27ae9 drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
The 3c509 was written by Donald Becker between 1993-2000. It is an ISA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-1-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-23 15:56:43 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski 6deb535950 net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers
that are no longer in active use.

The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM, BR2684, and USB DSL modem
drivers (drivers/usb/atm/) are retained in-tree to maintain PPP
over ATM (PPPoA) and PPPoE-over-BR2684 support for DSL connections.
The Solos ADSL2+ PCI driver is also retained.

Removed ATM protocol modules:
 - net/atm/clip.c - Classical IP over ATM (RFC 2225)
 - net/atm/lec.c - LAN Emulation Client (LANE)
 - net/atm/mpc.c, mpoa_caches.c, mpoa_proc.c - Multi-Protocol Over ATM

Removed PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers (drivers/atm/):
 - adummy, atmtcp - software/testing ATM devices
 - eni - Efficient Networks ENI155P (OC-3, ~1995)
 - fore200e - FORE Systems 200E PCI/SBUS (OC-3, ~1999)
 - he - ForeRunner HE (OC-3/OC-12, ~2000)
 - idt77105 - IDT 77105 25 Mbps ATM PHY
 - idt77252 - IDT 77252 NICStAR II (OC-3, ~2000)
 - iphase - Interphase ATM PCI (OC-3/DS3/E3)
 - lanai - Efficient Networks Speedstream 3010
 - nicstar - IDT 77201 NICStAR (155/25 Mbps, ~1999)
 - suni - PMC S/UNI SONET PHY library

Also clean up references in:
 - net/bridge/ - remove ATM LANE hook (br_fdb_test_addr_hook,
   br_fdb_test_addr)
 - net/core/dev.c - remove br_fdb_test_addr_hook export
 - defconfig files - remove ATM driver config options

The removed code is moved to an out-of-tree module package (mod-orphan).

Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-23 12:21:14 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski dd8d4bc28a net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
to protect our sanity.

The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.

Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-04-23 10:24:02 -07:00
Ethan Nelson-Moore aba0138eb7 net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver
The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10
Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been
manufactured in years. On x86, it was quickly replaced by PCIe. While
it stuck around longer on POWER hardware, the last POWER hardware to
support it was POWER7, which is not supported by ppc64le Linux
distributions. The last supported mainstream ppc64 Linux distribution
was RHEL 7; while it is still supported under ELS, ELS is only
available for x86 and IBM Z. It is possible to use many PCI-X cards in
standard PCI slots (which are still available on new motherboards), but
it does not make sense to do so for 10 Gigabit Ethernet because the
maximum bandwidth of standard PCI is only 1067 Mbps. It is therefore
highly unlikely that this driver is still being used. Remove the
driver, and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file (restoring
credit for the vxge driver, which was removed in commit f05643a0f6
("eth: remove neterion/vxge").

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260126031352.22997-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-28 20:08:07 -08:00
Vegard Nossum 4b6fba4643 docs: add Documentation/.renames.txt
This is the result of running:

  scripts/documentation-gen-renames.py --rev v6.17-rc3 > Documentation/.renames.txt

This file records renames in the Documentation/ directory so that we
can use it to quickly generate HTML redirects from removed paths.

Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250905144608.577449-3-vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
2025-09-09 13:37:16 -06:00