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>
Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden
to core networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs
in BKL-era code, and noobs try to fix them.
If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse
this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted.
We've talked about these deletions multiple times in the past
and every time someone wanted the code to stay. It is never
very clear to me how many of those people actually use the code
vs are just nostalgic to see it go. Amateur radio did have
occasional users (or so I think) but most users switched
to user space implementations since its all super slow stuff.
Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.
We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC
so we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of
this code behind us.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski:
"Delete some obsolete networking code
Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core
networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and
noobs try to fix them.
If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse
this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked
about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time
someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many
of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it
go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most
users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow
stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.
We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so
we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code
behind us"
* tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next:
drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver
drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver
drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir
net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver
net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP
caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER
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>
Similar to the hamachi driver, the yellowfin driver supports hardware
that is over two decades old and no longer in active use.
Since yellowfin was the last remaining driver in the packetengines
vendor directory, we can now safely remove the entire directory and
drop its associated references from the parent Kconfig and Makefile.
This eliminates dead code and reduces the overall maintenance burden
on the netdev subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422044820.485660-3-25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The PacketEngine Hamachi driver is for PCI hardware that has been
obsolete for over two decades. It recently triggered arithmetic
exceptions during automated fuzzing.
As suggested by maintainers, remove the driver entirely to eliminate
dead code and reduce the maintenance burden.
Signed-off-by: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422044820.485660-2-25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
A number of minor PCMCIA bugfixes and cleanups, and a patch removing
obsolete host controller drivers.
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Merge tag 'pcmcia-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux
Pull PCMCIA updates from Dominik Brodowski:
"A number of minor PCMCIA bugfixes and cleanups, and a patch removing
obsolete host controller drivers"
* tag 'pcmcia-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux:
pcmcia: remove obsolete host controller drivers
pcmcia: Convert to use less arguments in pci_bus_for_each_resource()
PCMCIA: Fix garbled log messages for KERN_CONT
- crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only)
- mac80211:
- multi-link 4-addr support
- NAN data support (but no drivers yet)
- ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices
- ath12k: IPQ5424 support
- rtw89: USB improvements for performance
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Merge tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Final updates, notably:
- crypto: move Michael MIC code into wireless (only)
- mac80211:
- multi-link 4-addr support
- NAN data support (but no drivers yet)
- ath10k: DT quirk to make it work on some devices
- ath12k: IPQ5424 support
- rtw89: USB improvements for performance
* tag 'wireless-next-2026-04-10' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (124 commits)
wifi: cfg80211: Explicitly include <linux/export.h> in michael-mic.c
wifi: ath10k: Add device-tree quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
dt-bindings: wireless: ath10k: Add quirk to skip host cap QMI requests
crypto: Remove michael_mic from crypto_shash API
wifi: ipw2x00: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
wifi: ath12k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
wifi: ath11k: Use michael_mic() from cfg80211
wifi: mac80211, cfg80211: Export michael_mic() and move it to cfg80211
wifi: ipw2x00: Rename michael_mic() to libipw_michael_mic()
wifi: libertas_tf: refactor endpoint lookup
wifi: libertas: refactor endpoint lookup
wifi: at76c50x: refactor endpoint lookup
wifi: ath12k: Enable IPQ5424 WiFi device support
wifi: ath12k: Add CE remap hardware parameters for IPQ5424
wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_regs for IPQ5424
wifi: ath12k: add ath12k_hw_version_map entry for IPQ5424
wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_hw_params for IPQ5424
dt-bindings: net: wireless: add ath12k wifi device IPQ5424
wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect
wifi: ath12k: Create symlink for each radio in a wiphy
...
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410064703.735099-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Remove the "michael_mic" crypto_shash algorithm, since it's no longer
used. Its only users were wireless drivers, which have now been
converted to use the michael_mic() function instead.
It makes sense that no other users ever appeared: Michael MIC is an
insecure algorithm that is specific to WPA TKIP, which itself was an
interim security solution to replace the broken WEP standard.
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408030651.80336-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The entire git history for this driver looks like tree-wide
and automated cleanups. There's even more coming now with
AI, so let's try to delete it instead.
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403220501.2263835-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
PCMCIA is almost completely obsolete (the last computers supporting it
natively were from ~2009), and the general consensus [1] seems to be
that support for it should be gradually removed from the kernel.
In 2023, an initial step of removing all the PCMCIA char drivers was
taken in commit 9b12f050c7 ("char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers"),
and that has not been reverted, so it seems logical to continue this
process by removing more low-hanging fruit.
These host controller drivers have had no meaningful changes since
their status was discussed in 2022 [2], and are unlikely to have any
remaining users. Remove them and a couple references to them
in comments.
The i82365 and tcic drivers are for ISA-attached host controllers,
which are even less likely to be used nowadays than ones on other buses.
The i82092 driver has almost certainly not been used in over 20 years.
It was broken by a null pointer dereference since the dawn of Git
history (2.6.12-rc2 in 2005) until someone fixed it in 2021 in commit
e39cdacf2f ("pcmcia: i82092: fix a null pointer dereference bug").
From their dmesg log [3], it is clear they were testing in an emulated
environment and not on real hardware.
i82365.h is used by drivers other than i82365 and is therefore retained.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y07d7rMvd5++85BJ@owl.dominikbrodowski.net/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1624345891-4215-1-git-send-email-zheyuma97@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> # for x86
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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>
This reverts commit 8401a108a6.
I got a report from an (anonymous) Sundance user:
Ethernet controller: Sundance Technology Inc / IC Plus Corp IC Plus IP100A Integrated 10/100 Ethernet MAC + PHY (rev 31)
Revert the driver back in. Make following changes:
- update Denis's email address in MAINTAINERS
- adjust to timer API renames:
- del_timer_sync() -> timer_delete_sync()
- from_timer() -> timer_container_of()
Fixes: 8401a108a6 ("eth: remove the DLink/Sundance (ST201) driver")
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250901210818.1025316-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This option was removed from the Kconfig in commit
8c710f7525 ("net/sched: Retire tcindex classifier") but it was not
removed from the defconfigs.
Fixes: 8c710f7525 ("net/sched: Retire tcindex classifier")
Signed-off-by: Johan Korsnes <johan.korsnes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250323191116.113482-1-johan.korsnes@gmail.com
Core
----
- Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.
- Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
faster.
- Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing
again the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
scalability.
- Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
micro-benchmarks.
- Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
performance improvement in related stream tests.
- Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
on PREMPT_RT.
- Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.
Netfilter
---------
- Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools
still use this interface.
- Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain
and flowtables.
- Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.
- Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
introspection.
BPF
---
- BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
using the "tc qdisc" command.
- Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.
Protocols
---------
- Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the single
flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.
- Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.
- Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
matches the nexthop device.
- Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.
- Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
in the fast path.
- Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.
Driver API
----------
- Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
unsupported flags.
- Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.
- Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
dump operations targeting PHYs.
Tests and tooling
-----------------
- Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
qdisc layer configuration.
- Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
netlink output.
- Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.
- Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing
to the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT
the user-space implementation.
- Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.
- Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.
- AMD Renoir ethernet device.
- ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.
- Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.
Drivers
-------
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- refactor the stearing table handling to reduce significantly
the amount of memory used
- add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
- improve flow streeing error handling
- convert to netdev instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
- ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
- ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
- igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
- igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
- idpf: introduce RDMA support
- idpf: add initial PTP support
- Meta (fbnic):
- extend hardware stats coverage
- add devlink dev flash support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add support for RX-side device memory TCP
- Wangxun (txgbe):
- implement support for udp tunnel offload
- complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google (gve):
- add device memory TCP TX support
- Amazon (ena):
- support persistent per-NAPI config
- Airoha:
- add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
- add per flow stats for flow offloading
- RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
- add Loongson-2K3000 support
- introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
- Broadcom (bcmgenet):
- expose more H/W stats
- Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
- enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
- dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
- vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
- veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops
- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- RealTek (rtl8211):
- add support for WoL magic packet
- add support for PHY LEDs
- CAN:
- Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
- Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
- Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.
- WiFi:
- mac80211:
- scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- enable AHB support for IPQ5332
- add monitor interface support to QCN9274
- add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
- add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
- monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- restore hibernation support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WiFi-7 improvements
- implement support for mt7990
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
- rework device configuration
- RealTek (rtw88):
- improve throughput for RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- add multi-link operation support
- STA/P2P concurrency improvements
- support different SAR configs by antenna
- Bluetooth:
- introduce HCI Driver protocol
- btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
- btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
- btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
- btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.
- Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
faster.
- Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
scalability.
- Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
micro-benchmarks.
- Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
performance improvement in related stream tests.
- Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
on PREMPT_RT.
- Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.
Netfilter:
- Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
use this interface.
- Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
flowtables.
- Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.
- Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
introspection.
BPF:
- BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
using the "tc qdisc" command.
- Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.
Protocols:
- Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.
- Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.
- Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
matches the nexthop device.
- Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.
- Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
in the fast path.
- Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.
Driver API:
- Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
unsupported flags.
- Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.
- Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
dump operations targeting PHYs.
Tests and tooling:
- Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
qdisc layer configuration.
- Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
netlink output.
- Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.
- Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.
New hardware / drivers:
- OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
user-space implementation.
- Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.
- Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.
- AMD Renoir ethernet device.
- ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.
- Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.
Drivers:
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- refactor the steering table handling to significantly
reduce the amount of memory used
- add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
- improve flow streeing error handling
- convert to netdev instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
- ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
- ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
- igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
- igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
- idpf: introduce RDMA support
- idpf: add initial PTP support
- Meta (fbnic):
- extend hardware stats coverage
- add devlink dev flash support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add support for RX-side device memory TCP
- Wangxun (txgbe):
- implement support for udp tunnel offload
- complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google (gve):
- add device memory TCP TX support
- Amazon (ena):
- support persistent per-NAPI config
- Airoha:
- add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
- add per flow stats for flow offloading
- RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
- add Loongson-2K3000 support
- introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
- Broadcom (bcmgenet):
- expose more H/W stats
- Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
- enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
- dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
- vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
- veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops
- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- RealTek (rtl8211):
- add support for WoL magic packet
- add support for PHY LEDs
- CAN:
- Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
- Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
- Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.
- WiFi:
- mac80211:
- scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- enable AHB support for IPQ5332
- add monitor interface support to QCN9274
- add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
- add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
- monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- restore hibernation support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WiFi-7 improvements
- implement support for mt7990
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
- rework device configuration
- RealTek (rtw88):
- improve throughput for RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- add multi-link operation support
- STA/P2P concurrency improvements
- support different SAR configs by antenna
- Bluetooth:
- introduce HCI Driver protocol
- btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
- btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
- btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
- btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"
* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
...
tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests. This
regularly causes confusion. Update the kconfig option name and help
text accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd ("MAINTAINERS: dccp:
move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer
had been inactive for five years.
In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes
to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that,
the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates
or adjustments related to TCP.
Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit
b144fcaf46 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice.").
Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0]
There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted
on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream
community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license,
the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating:
"This is not Open Source software."
The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream
the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further
communication since then.
Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden.
Therefore, it's time to remove it.
Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows
us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which
is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of
cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path.
Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> (LSM and SELinux)
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Core & protocols
----------------
- Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock
(IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls).
- Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver
opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool
operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.
- Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked)
in BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower
overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.
- Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy
Rx via io_uring.
- Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.
- Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued
for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream performance
up to 2x.
- Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching
for an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock.
Bring an additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.
- Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving
performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.
- Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under
ping flood.
- Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.
- Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly
identify network namespaces and their roles.
There are up to 4 namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns
pointer arguments, interpreted differently based on context.
- Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid
deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.
- Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout
in TCP.
- Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.
- Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.
- Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP
sockets.
- Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin users.
- Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.
- Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols
which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a module.
- Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar
to normal bridging.
- Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.
- netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name
to messages as metadata
Driver API
----------
- Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across
the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where possible.
Improve its handling in phylib.
- Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.
- Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.
- Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.
Device drivers
--------------
- Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390.
- Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver.
- Add support for SFP module access over SMBus.
- Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB.
- Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD platforms
- support dumping RoCE queue state for debug
- opt into instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution
- ice: support for E830 devices
- iavf: add support for Rx timestamping
- iavf: opt into instance locking
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock
- mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes
- mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption
- AMD/Solarflare:
- support FW flashing via devlink
- Cisco (enic):
- use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- enable 32, 64 byte CQEs
- get max rx/tx ring size from the device
- Meta (fbnic):
- support flow steering and RSS configuration
- report queue stats
- support TCP segmentation
- support IRQ coalescing
- support ring size configuration
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support AF_XDP
- Wangxun:
- support for PTP clock and timestamping
- Huawei (hibmcge):
- checksum offload
- add more statistics
- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96% with
1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs
- expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings
- Google (gve):
- support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format
- opt into instance locking
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support BIG TCP
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused cleanups
- enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms
- support Sophgo SG2044
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support for BCM53101
- TI:
- iep: add perout configuration support
- icssg: support XDP
- Cadence (macb):
- implement BQL
- Xilinx (axinet):
- support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at runtime
- implement BQL
- report standard stats
- MediaTek:
- support phylink managed EEE
- Intel:
- igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change
- RealTek (r8169):
- support reading registers of internal PHYs directly
- increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126
- Airoha:
- support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit
- enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB
- Tehuti (tn40xx):
- support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY
- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for TJA1102S, TJA1121
- dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection
- dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage
- support for LEDs on 88q2xxx
- CAN:
- canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access
- flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC
- WiFi:
- remove cooked monitor support
- strict mode for better AP testing
- basic EPCS support
- OMI RX bandwidth reduction support
- batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work
- add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO
- improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations
- MediaTek (mt76):
- preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- continued work on MLO
- Silabs (wfx):
- Wake-on-WLAN support
- Bluetooth:
- add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
- hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
- coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor
- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel: add support to configure TX power
- nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Continue Netlink conversions to per-namespace RTNL lock
(IPv4 routing, routing rules, routing next hops, ARP ioctls)
- Continue extending the use of netdev instance locks. As a driver
opt-in protect queue operations and (in due course) ethtool
operations with the instance lock and not RTNL lock.
- Support collecting TCP timestamps (data submitted, sent, acked) in
BPF, allowing for transparent (to the application) and lower
overhead tracking of TCP RPC performance.
- Tweak existing networking Rx zero-copy infra to support zero-copy
Rx via io_uring.
- Optimize MPTCP performance in single subflow mode by 29%.
- Enable GRO on packets which went thru XDP CPU redirect (were queued
for processing on a different CPU). Improving TCP stream
performance up to 2x.
- Improve performance of contended connect() by 200% by searching for
an available 4-tuple under RCU rather than a spin lock. Bring an
additional 229% improvement by tweaking hash distribution.
- Avoid unconditionally touching sk_tsflags on RX, improving
performance under UDP flood by as much as 10%.
- Avoid skb_clone() dance in ping_rcv() to improve performance under
ping flood.
- Avoid FIB lookup in netfilter if socket is available, 20% perf win.
- Rework network device creation (in-kernel) API to more clearly
identify network namespaces and their roles. There are up to 4
namespace roles but we used to have just 2 netns pointer arguments,
interpreted differently based on context.
- Use sysfs_break_active_protection() instead of trylock to avoid
deadlocks between unregistering objects and sysfs access.
- Add a new sysctl and sockopt for capping max retransmit timeout in
TCP.
- Support masking port and DSCP in routing rule matches.
- Support dumping IPv4 multicast addresses with RTM_GETMULTICAST.
- Support specifying at what time packet should be sent on AF_XDP
sockets.
- Expose TCP ULP diagnostic info (for TLS and MPTCP) to non-admin
users.
- Add Netlink YAML spec for WiFi (nl80211) and conntrack.
- Introduce EXPORT_IPV6_MOD() and EXPORT_IPV6_MOD_GPL() for symbols
which only need to be exported when IPv6 support is built as a
module.
- Age FDB entries based on Rx not Tx traffic in VxLAN, similar to
normal bridging.
- Allow users to specify source port range for GENEVE tunnels.
- netconsole: allow attaching kernel release, CPU ID and task name to
messages as metadata
Driver API:
- Continue rework / fixing of Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) across
the SW layers. Delegate the responsibilities to phylink where
possible. Improve its handling in phylib.
- Support symmetric OR-XOR RSS hashing algorithm.
- Support tracking and preserving IRQ affinity by NAPI itself.
- Support loopback mode speed selection for interface selftests.
Device drivers:
- Remove the IBM LCS driver for s390
- Remove the sb1000 cable modem driver
- Add support for SFP module access over SMBus
- Add MCTP transport driver for MCTP-over-USB
- Enable XDP metadata support in multiple drivers
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add PCIe TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support for new AMD
platforms
- support dumping RoCE queue state for debug
- opt into instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: rework MSI-X IRQ management and distribution
- ice: support for E830 devices
- iavf: add support for Rx timestamping
- iavf: opt into instance locking
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- mlx4: use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- mlx5: support for one PTP device per hardware clock
- mlx5: support for 200Gbps per-lane link modes
- mlx5: move IPSec policy check after decryption
- AMD/Solarflare:
- support FW flashing via devlink
- Cisco (enic):
- use page pool memory allocator for Rx
- enable 32, 64 byte CQEs
- get max rx/tx ring size from the device
- Meta (fbnic):
- support flow steering and RSS configuration
- report queue stats
- support TCP segmentation
- support IRQ coalescing
- support ring size configuration
- Marvell/Cavium:
- support AF_XDP
- Wangxun:
- support for PTP clock and timestamping
- Huawei (hibmcge):
- checksum offload
- add more statistics
- Ethernet virtual:
- VirtIO net:
- aggressively suppress Tx completions, improve perf by 96%
with 1 CPU and 55% with 2 CPUs
- expose NAPI to IRQ mapping and persist NAPI settings
- Google (gve):
- support XDP in DQO RDA Queue Format
- opt into instance locking
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support BIG TCP
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- cleanup Tx and Tx clock setting and other link-focused
cleanups
- enable SGMII and 2500BASEX mode switching for Intel platforms
- support Sophgo SG2044
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support for BCM53101
- TI:
- iep: add perout configuration support
- icssg: support XDP
- Cadence (macb):
- implement BQL
- Xilinx (axinet):
- support dynamic IRQ moderation and changing coalescing at
runtime
- implement BQL
- report standard stats
- MediaTek:
- support phylink managed EEE
- Intel:
- igc: don't restart the interface on every XDP program change
- RealTek (r8169):
- support reading registers of internal PHYs directly
- increase max jumbo packet size on RTL8125/RTL8126
- Airoha:
- support for RISC-V NPU packet processing unit
- enable scatter-gather and support MTU up to 9kB
- Tehuti (tn40xx):
- support cards with TN4010 MAC and an Aquantia AQR105 PHY
- Ethernet PHYs:
- support for TJA1102S, TJA1121
- dp83tg720: add randomized polling intervals for link detection
- dp83822: support changing the transmit amplitude voltage
- support for LEDs on 88q2xxx
- CAN:
- canxl: support Remote Request Substitution bit access
- flexcan: add S32G2/S32G3 SoC
- WiFi:
- remove cooked monitor support
- strict mode for better AP testing
- basic EPCS support
- OMI RX bandwidth reduction support
- batman-adv: add support for jumbo frames
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw88):
- support RTL8814AE and RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- switch using wiphy_lock and wiphy_work
- add BB context to manipulate two PHY as preparation of MLO
- improve BT-coexistence mechanism to play A2DP smoothly
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- add new iwlmld sub-driver for latest HW/FW combinations
- MediaTek (mt76):
- preparation for mt7996 Multi-Link Operation (MLO) support
- Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
- continued work on MLO
- Silabs (wfx):
- Wake-on-WLAN support
- Bluetooth:
- add support for skb TX SND/COMPLETION timestamping
- hci_core: enable buffer flow control for SCO/eSCO
- coredump: log devcd dumps into the monitor
- Bluetooth drivers:
- intel: add support to configure TX power
- nxp: handle bootloader error during cmd5 and cmd7"
* tag 'net-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1681 commits)
unix: fix up for "apparmor: add fine grained af_unix mediation"
mctp: Fix incorrect tx flow invalidation condition in mctp-i2c
net: usb: asix: ax88772: Increase phy_name size
net: phy: Introduce PHY_ID_SIZE — minimum size for PHY ID string
net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum
net: libwx: fix Tx descriptor content for some tunnel packets
atm: Fix NULL pointer dereference
net: tn40xx: add pci-id of the aqr105-based Tehuti TN4010 cards
net: tn40xx: prepare tn40xx driver to find phy of the TN9510 card
net: tn40xx: create swnode for mdio and aqr105 phy and add to mdiobus
net: phy: aquantia: add essential functions to aqr105 driver
net: phy: aquantia: search for firmware-name in fwnode
net: phy: aquantia: add probe function to aqr105 for firmware loading
net: phy: Add swnode support to mdiobus_scan
gve: add XDP DROP and PASS support for DQ
gve: update XDP allocation path support RX buffer posting
gve: merge packet buffer size fields
gve: update GQ RX to use buf_size
gve: introduce config-based allocation for XDP
gve: remove xdp_xsk_done and xdp_xsk_wakeup statistics
...
Since 2002 (change "Replace BKL for chain locking with sysvfs-private
rwlock") the sysv filesystem was doing IO under a rwlock in its
get_block() function (yes, a non-sleepable lock hold over a function
used to read inode metadata for all reads and writes). Nobody noticed
until syzbot in 2023 [1]. This shows nobody is using the filesystem.
Just drop it.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000000ccf9a05ee84f5b0@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220163940.10155-2-jack@suse.cz
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Do not select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE from FB_BACKLIGHT. The latter
only controls backlight support within fbdev core code and data
structures.
Make fbdev drivers depend on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE and let users
select it explicitly. Fixes warnings about recursive dependencies,
such as
error: recursive dependency detected!
symbol BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is selected by FB_BACKLIGHT
symbol FB_BACKLIGHT is selected by FB_SH_MOBILE_LCDC
symbol FB_SH_MOBILE_LCDC depends on FB_DEVICE
symbol FB_DEVICE depends on FB_CORE
symbol FB_CORE is selected by DRM_GEM_DMA_HELPER
symbol DRM_GEM_DMA_HELPER is selected by DRM_PANEL_ILITEK_ILI9341
symbol DRM_PANEL_ILITEK_ILI9341 depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is user-selectable, so making drivers adapt to
it is the correct approach in any case. For most drivers, backlight
support is also configurable separately.
v3:
- Select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE in PowerMac defconfigs (Christophe)
- Fix PMAC_BACKLIGHT module dependency corner cases (Christophe)
v2:
- s/BACKLIGHT_DEVICE_CLASS/BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE (Helge)
- Fix fbdev driver-dependency corner case (Arnd)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20241216074450.8590-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Konstantin reports the maintainer's address bounces.
There is no other maintainer and the driver is quite old.
There is a good chance nobody is using this driver any more.
Let's try to remove it completely, we can revert it back in
if someone complains.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240925-bizarre-earwig-from-pluto-1484aa@lemu/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 6e5f153783 ("powerpc: Add a 6xx defconfig") said it was copied
from fedore's ppc32 defconfig, but at least since 2015-06-10, Fedora has
dropped this option.[1]
For cgroup v1, if turned on, and there's any cgroup in the "cpu" hierarchy it
needs an RT budget assigned, otherwise the processes in it will not be able to
get RT at all. The problem with RT group scheduling is that it requires the
budget assigned but there's no way we could assign a default budget, since the
values to assign are both upper and lower time limits, are absolute, and need to
be sum up to < 1 for each individal cgroup. That means we cannot really come up
with values that would work by default in the general case.[1]
For cgroup v2, it's almost unusable as well. If it turned on, the cpu controller
can only be enabled when all RT processes are in the root cgroup. But it will
lose the benefits of cgroup v2 if all RT process were placed in the same cgroup.
systemd also doesn't support it.[2]
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229700
[2]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13781#issuecomment-549164383
Signed-off-by: Celeste Liu <CoelacanthusHex@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240530111947.549474-12-CoelacanthusHex@gmail.com
Now that we are retiring the IPT action.
Reviewed-by: Victor Noguiera <victor@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ReiserFS has been deprecated for a year and a half, yet is still built
as part of a defconfig kernel.
According to commit eb103a5164 ("reiserfs: Deprecate reiserfs"), the
filesystem is slated to be removed in 2025. Remove it from the defconfig
profiles now, as part of its deprecation process.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lafreniere <peter@n8pjl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230918175529.19011-3-peter@n8pjl.ca
- Add HOTPLUG_SMT support (/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt) and honour the
configured SMT state when hotplugging CPUs into the system.
- Combine final TLB flush and lazy TLB mm shootdown IPIs when using the Radix
MMU to avoid a broadcast TLBIE flush on exit.
- Drop the exclusion between ptrace/perf watchpoints, and drop the now unused
associated arch hooks.
- Add support for the "nohlt" command line option to disable CPU idle.
- Add support for -fpatchable-function-entry for ftrace, with GCC >= 13.1.
- Rework memory block size determination, and support 256MB size on systems
with GPUs that have hotpluggable memory.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to: Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev,
Benjamin Gray, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Gautam Menghani, Geoff Levand,
Hari Bathini, Immad Mir, Jialin Zhang, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Justin
Stitt, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Liang He,
Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masahiro Yamada, Michal Suchanek, Nageswara
R Sastry, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick
Desaulniers, Omar Sandoval, Randy Dunlap, Reza Arbab, Rob Herring, Russell
Currey, Sourabh Jain, Thomas Gleixner, Trevor Woerner, Uwe Kleine-König, Vaibhav
Jain, Xiongfeng Wang, Yuan Tan, Zhang Rui, Zheng Zengkai.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-6.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add HOTPLUG_SMT support (/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt) and honour the
configured SMT state when hotplugging CPUs into the system
- Combine final TLB flush and lazy TLB mm shootdown IPIs when using the
Radix MMU to avoid a broadcast TLBIE flush on exit
- Drop the exclusion between ptrace/perf watchpoints, and drop the now
unused associated arch hooks
- Add support for the "nohlt" command line option to disable CPU idle
- Add support for -fpatchable-function-entry for ftrace, with GCC >=
13.1
- Rework memory block size determination, and support 256MB size on
systems with GPUs that have hotpluggable memory
- Various other small features and fixes
Thanks to Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Benjamin Gray, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Gautam
Menghani, Geoff Levand, Hari Bathini, Immad Mir, Jialin Zhang, Joel
Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Justin Stitt, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Krzysztof
Kozlowski, Laurent Dufour, Liang He, Linus Walleij, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
Masahiro Yamada, Michal Suchanek, Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan Chancellor,
Nathan Lynch, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Omar
Sandoval, Randy Dunlap, Reza Arbab, Rob Herring, Russell Currey, Sourabh
Jain, Thomas Gleixner, Trevor Woerner, Uwe Kleine-König, Vaibhav Jain,
Xiongfeng Wang, Yuan Tan, Zhang Rui, and Zheng Zengkai.
* tag 'powerpc-6.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (135 commits)
macintosh/ams: linux/platform_device.h is needed
powerpc/xmon: Reapply "Relax frame size for clang"
powerpc/mm/book3s64: Use 256M as the upper limit with coherent device memory attached
powerpc/mm/book3s64: Fix build error with SPARSEMEM disabled
powerpc/iommu: Fix notifiers being shared by PCI and VIO buses
powerpc/mpc5xxx: Add missing fwnode_handle_put()
powerpc/config: Disable SLAB_DEBUG_ON in skiroot
powerpc/pseries: Remove unused hcall tracing instruction
powerpc/pseries: Fix hcall tracepoints with JUMP_LABEL=n
powerpc: dts: add missing space before {
powerpc/eeh: Use pci_dev_id() to simplify the code
powerpc/64s: Move CPU -mtune options into Kconfig
powerpc/powermac: Fix unused function warning
powerpc/pseries: Rework lppaca_shared_proc() to avoid DEBUG_PREEMPT
powerpc: Don't include lppaca.h in paca.h
powerpc/pseries: Move hcall_vphn() prototype into vphn.h
powerpc/pseries: Move VPHN constants into vphn.h
cxl: Drop unused detach_spa()
powerpc: Drop zalloc_maybe_bootmem()
powerpc/powernv: Use struct opal_prd_msg in more places
...
Drop CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP as it was removed in commit 9db5d918e2
("netfilter: ip_tables: remove clusterip target").
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230817115017.35663-5-twoerner@gmail.com
Commit a2225d931f ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
promised the removal of the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS
within a couple of releases, but five years later this still has not
happened yet, and AUTOFS4_FS is still enabled in 63 defconfigs.
Get rid of it mechanically:
git grep -l CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS -- '*defconfig' |
xargs sed -i 's/AUTOFS4_FS/AUTOFS_FS/'
Also just remove the AUTOFS4_FS config option stub. Anybody who hasn't
regenerated their config file in the last five years will need to just
get the new name right when they do.
Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Add support for building the kernel using PC-relative addressing on Power10.
- Allow HV KVM guests on Power10 to use prefixed instructions.
- Unify support for the P2020 CPU (85xx) into a single machine description.
- Always build the 64-bit kernel with 128-bit long double.
- Drop support for several obsolete 2000's era development boards as
identified by Paul Gortmaker.
- A series fixing VFIO on Power since some generic changes.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Benjamin Gray, Bo Liu,
Christophe Leroy, Dan Carpenter, David Binderman, Ira Weiny, Joel Stanley,
Kajol Jain, Kautuk Consul, Liang He, Luis Chamberlain, Masahiro Yamada, Michael
Neuling, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Desaulniers, Nysal Jan K.A, Pali Rohár, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras,
Petr Vaněk, Randy Dunlap, Rob Herring, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher
Boessenkool, Timothy Pearson.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for building the kernel using PC-relative addressing on
Power10.
- Allow HV KVM guests on Power10 to use prefixed instructions.
- Unify support for the P2020 CPU (85xx) into a single machine
description.
- Always build the 64-bit kernel with 128-bit long double.
- Drop support for several obsolete 2000's era development boards as
identified by Paul Gortmaker.
- A series fixing VFIO on Power since some generic changes.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Benjamin Gray, Bo Liu,
Christophe Leroy, Dan Carpenter, David Binderman, Ira Weiny, Joel
Stanley, Kajol Jain, Kautuk Consul, Liang He, Luis Chamberlain, Masahiro
Yamada, Michael Neuling, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Nysal Jan K.A, Pali
Rohár, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras, Petr Vaněk, Randy Dunlap, Rob
Herring, Sachin Sant, Sean Christopherson, Segher Boessenkool, and
Timothy Pearson.
* tag 'powerpc-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits)
powerpc/64s: Disable pcrel code model on Clang
powerpc: Fix merge conflict between pcrel and copy_thread changes
powerpc/configs/powernv: Add IGB=y
powerpc/configs/64s: Drop JFS Filesystem
powerpc/configs/64s: Use EXT4 to mount EXT2 filesystems
powerpc/configs: Make pseries_defconfig an alias for ppc64le_guest
powerpc/configs: Make pseries_le an alias for ppc64le_guest
powerpc/configs: Incorporate generic kvm_guest.config into guest configs
powerpc/configs: Add IBMVETH=y and IBMVNIC=y to guest configs
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable Device Mapper options
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable PSTORE
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable VLAN support
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable BLK_DEV_NVME
powerpc/configs/64s: Drop REISERFS
powerpc/configs/64s: Use SHA512 for module signatures
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable IO_STRICT_DEVMEM
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable SCHEDSTATS
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable DEBUG_VM & other options
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable EMULATED_STATS
powerpc/configs/64s: Enable KUNIT and most tests
...
Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
6.4-rc1.
It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost breaks
even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.
Included in here are:
- removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)
- Interconnect driver updates and additions
- Lots of IIO driver updates and additions
- MHI driver updates
- Coresight driver updates
- NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates
- W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem
- FPGA driver updates
- New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems
- lots of other small driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc drivers updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
6.4-rc1.
It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost
breaks even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.
Included in here are:
- removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)
- Interconnect driver updates and additions
- Lots of IIO driver updates and additions
- MHI driver updates
- Coresight driver updates
- NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates
- W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem
- FPGA driver updates
- New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems
- lots of other small driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (196 commits)
mcb-lpc: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
mcb: Return actual parsed size when reading chameleon table
kernel/configs: Drop Android config fragments
virt: acrn: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
spmi: fix W=1 kernel-doc warnings
spmi: mtk-pmif: Drop of_match_ptr for ID table
spmi: pmic-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: mtk-pmif: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
w1: gpio: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: omap-hdq: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: omap-hdq: add SPDX tag
w1: omap-hdq: allow compile testing
w1: matrox: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: matrox: use inline over __inline__
w1: matrox: switch from asm to linux header
w1: ds2482: do not use assignment in if condition
w1: ds2482: drop unnecessary header
...
Here is the large set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.4-rc1.
"biggest" thing in here is the removal of two obsolete drivers, u132-hcd
and ftdi-elan, making this a net-removal of code overall.
Other than the driver removals, included in here are:
- Thunderbolt updates for new hardware and features
- xhci driver updates and fixes
- dwc3 driver updates and fixes
- gadget core and driver updates and features added
- mtu3 driver updates
- dwc2 driver fixes and updates
- usb-serial driver updates
- typec driver updates and fixes
- platform remove callback changes
- dts updates and conversions
- other small changes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'usb-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.4-rc1.
The "biggest" thing in here is the removal of two obsolete drivers,
u132-hcd and ftdi-elan, making this a net-removal of code overall.
Other than the driver removals, included in here are:
- Thunderbolt updates for new hardware and features
- xhci driver updates and fixes
- dwc3 driver updates and fixes
- gadget core and driver updates and features added
- mtu3 driver updates
- dwc2 driver fixes and updates
- usb-serial driver updates
- typec driver updates and fixes
- platform remove callback changes
- dts updates and conversions
- other small changes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems"
* tag 'usb-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (177 commits)
usb: dwc3: gadget: Refactor EP0 forced stall/restart into a separate API
usb: dwc3: gadget: Execute gadget stop after halting the controller
media: radio-shark: Add endpoint checks
USB: sisusbvga: Add endpoint checks
USB: core: Add routines for endpoint checks in old drivers
usb: dwc3: gadget: Stall and restart EP0 if host is unresponsive
dt-bindings: usb: snps,dwc3: Add 'snps,parkmode-disable-hs-quirk' quirk
usb: dwc3: core: add support for disabling High-speed park mode
dt-bindings: usb: ci-hdrc-usb2: allow multiple PHYs
usb: mtu3: add optional clock xhci_ck and frmcnt_ck
dt-bindings: usb: mtu3: add two optional clocks
usb: mtu3: expose role-switch control to userspace
usb: mtu3: unlock @mtu->lock just before giving back request
usb: mtu3: fix kernel panic at qmu transfer done irq handler
usb: mtu3: use boolean return value
usb: mtu3: give back request when rx error happens
usb: chipidea: fix missing goto in `ci_hdrc_probe`
usb: gadget: udc: core: Prevent redundant calls to pullup
usb: gadget: udc: core: Invoke usb_gadget_connect only when started
usb: typec: ucsi: don't print PPM init deferred errors
...
Based on documentation revision dates, this MPC82xx pq2fads system
predates the MPC8272-ADS variant by about a year and only has 1/2
the amount of RAM (32MB) -- largely making it useless with a modern
v6.x kernel from today.
Similar to the MPC8272-ADS the pq2fads also supported other 82xx CPU
variants, had 8MB flash, and like the 8272 ADS platform, was on a fairly
large PCB in order to have space for breakout connectors for all features.
These 82xx platforms are two decades old, and originally made for a
small group of industry related people in order to assist in new OEM
board designs. Given that, it makes sense to remove support today.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230224204959.17425-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
The MPC8272-ADS also supported other 82xx CPU variants, had 64MB RAM,
8MB flash, and like the 85xx ADS platforms, was on a fairly large PCB
in order to have space for breakout connectors for all the features.
These 82xx platforms are two decades old, and originally made for a
small group of industry related people in order to assist in new OEM
board designs. Given that, it makes sense to remove support today.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230224204959.17425-2-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This evaluation platform was essentially a single core 8641 with
integrated graphics/display support - in an effort to reduce chip count
on kiosk and similar applications.
Compared to other evaluation platforms considered for removal in other
recent commits, this platform was relatively rare. Unlike all the other
10+ platforms, I couldn't find any documentation on it - just a link to
downloading the 2007 era BSP in "LTIB" format as was done back then.
With all that in mind, it seems prudent to remove it here in 2023.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
[mpe: Drop stale reference to MPC8610_HPCD in 86xx/Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230225201318.3682-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
There is no denying that this was an interesting platform in its day.
Access to a SMP powerpc platform became a bit more obtainable for folks
in the BSP industry in the 2007 era, thanks to this platform.
Add to that the move to the black Antec case vs. the generic white 2005
era case of the MPC8548CDS or the retro 1950s 1/2 height horizontal case
of the HPC II, and it was pretty interesting to people like myself then.
However, like all the other evaluation platforms, the overall system
was complex out of necessity, as it tried to showcase all possible
features and use-cases. That included an AMP option, where you could run
two bootloaders and two kernels over two serial consoles. Peripheral
sharing got a bit more tricky when you got to the hard disk and similar.
In any case we still have the same circumstance. A relatively rare and
expensive evaluation platform that is now 15+ years old and not out there
in large numbers in the general public. Removal in 2023 just makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230225201318.3682-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This final variant in the e300 family of Modular Development System
(MDS) in this series was actually aimed at feature reduction - things
like floating point and ethernet were removed in order to make for a
lower power and lower cost system.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU out
early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could take place
in parallel.
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was given
to partners who were planning to make their own boards.
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling new
board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist friendly
even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the support for this
particular platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
[mpe: Drop stale reference to MPC832x_MDS in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-5-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This next evolutionary step in the e300 family of Modular Development
System (MDS) still has, at its core component, a full length card with a
PCI edge. No case. Serial and network connectors were on card, so it
could optionally be fitted with plastic stand-offs and run stand-alone
off a power brick.
This is very similar to the MPC834x_MDS and MPC836x_MDS removed in the
prior commits, but with this board variant as yet another evolutionary
step. SATA and PCI-e were now available. But overall the form factor
and design goals were unchanged.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU out
early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could take place
in parallel.
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was given
to partners who were planning to make their own boards.
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling new
board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist friendly
even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the support for this
particular platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This 2006 era Modular Development System (MDS) has, at its core component,
a full length card with a PCI edge. No case. Serial and network
connectors were on card, so it could optionally be fitted with plastic
stand-offs and run stand-alone off a power brick.
This is very similar to the MPC834x_MDS removed in the prior commit, but
with this board variant as an evolutionary step. DDR2 was now an option,
and the card edge was revised down to PCI-32 as PCI-64 never got traction.
But overall the form factor and design goals were unchanged.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU out
early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could take place
in parallel.
To that end, the BGA CPU was held in place with a mechanical spring loaded
pressure assembly (vs. solder) so that early rev silicon could be replaced
in the field. Not for COTS deployment!
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was given
to partners who were planning to make their own boards.
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling new
board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist friendly
even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the support for this
particular platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
[mpe: Drop stale reference to MPC836x_MDS in arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
This 2006 era Modular Development System (MDS) has, at its core
component, a full length card with a PCI-64 edge. No case. Serial
and network connectors were on card, so it could optionally be fitted
with plastic stand-offs and run stand-alone off a power brick.
Like all the MDS systems, it was meant as a vehicle to get the CPU
out early to hardware OEMs so software and board development could
take place in parallel.
To that end, the BGA CPU was held in place with a mechanical spring
loaded pressure assembly (vs. solder) so that early rev silicon could
be replaced in the field. Not for COTS deployment!
These were made in limited numbers and availability preference was
given to partners who were planning to make their own boards, like
our WR SBC8349 [since retired in v4.18 (2017, commit 3bc6cf5a86)]
Given that the whole reason for existence was to assist in enabling
new board designs [not happening for 10+ years], and that they weren't
generally available, and that the hardware wasn't really hobbyist
friendly even for retro computing, it makes sense to retire the
support for this platform.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230220115913.25811-2-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
We need the USB fixes here, and the USB gadget update for future
development patches to be based on.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This driver didn't see real maintainance since several years. It has
several trivial issues (check $(scripts/checkpatch.pl -f
drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c)) and some harder ones (difficult locking,
explict kref handling, ...). Also today it's hard to find hardware to
make actually use of such a card and I suspect the driver is completely
unused.
So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230321150919.351947-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This driver got its last actual change in 2006 and is probably unused as
nowbody should use a cardbus to USB adapter any more.
If it were still used, the driver was in urgent need for maintainer
love. (Explicit kref handling, underdocumented locking, .remove() can
return errors ...)
Also the link in the (now removed) help text doesn't look actively
maintained. According to archive.org it forwarded to
http://www.copenhagen-hotel.net/ already back in 2018.
So don't waste more time on this driver and just delete it.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230321103638.343886-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Maciej W. Rozycki