* [RFC/PATCH net-next 0/1] Delete obsolete 8390 EISA drivers
@ 2013-01-07 18:16 Paul Gortmaker
2013-01-07 18:16 ` [PATCH net-next 1/1] drivers/net: delete 8390 based " Paul Gortmaker
2013-01-09 1:50 ` [RFC/PATCH net-next 0/1] Delete obsolete 8390 " David Miller
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From: Paul Gortmaker @ 2013-01-07 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, Paul Gortmaker
I'd like to propose that we get rid of these old 8390 EISA drivers.
Of the five deleted here, I wrote four -- and while that doesn't give
me any authority for deletion above anyone else, it does at least
allow me to comment on the absolute absence of anyone reaching
out to the driver author for assistance in the last dozen years.
Eventually we'll probably get rid of EISA bus support, since in
x86, the hardware is close to 20 years old and already too resource
constrained to be useful today. However there might still be
a few DEC Alpha enthusiasts with old EISA machines kept alive,
and so I expect we'll have to wait a bit longer to get unanimous
agreement to proceed with the full EISA removal (although I'd
love to be proven wrong on that).
Most of the DEC Alpha machines shipped in a PCI configuration, and
even the few that were EISA had DEC tulip based ethernet and no
reason to be needing the inferior 8390 technology. So the interest
here for any possible DEC enthusiasts with EISA boxes about these
old 8390 drivers should be nil.
These really were rare cards -- in fact the smc-ultra32 is the only
one that I'd ever seen in person. Even back in the mid 90's when
the drivers were written, I would guess that the user base was less
than 10 people across all of them.
The following patch was created with --irreversible-delete for
ease of review (it skips showing the content of files that are
deleted); however the complete patch can be pulled as per below.
Paul.
---
The following changes since commit 483f777266f5da205459c290994bd3cda5f1f6bc:
drivers/net: remove orphaned references to micro channel (2013-01-06 21:13:33 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git delete-8390-EISA
for you to fetch changes up to bca94cffabf5c9f2399da34eab00bd534bf3735b:
drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers. (2013-01-07 10:24:26 -0500)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Gortmaker (1):
drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers.
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig | 66 +----
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile | 5 -
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c | 431 -----------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c | 445 ------------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c | 433 -----------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c | 346 ------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c | 463 --------------------------------
7 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2187 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c
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* [PATCH net-next 1/1] drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers.
2013-01-07 18:16 [RFC/PATCH net-next 0/1] Delete obsolete 8390 EISA drivers Paul Gortmaker
@ 2013-01-07 18:16 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-01-09 1:50 ` [RFC/PATCH net-next 0/1] Delete obsolete 8390 " David Miller
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul Gortmaker @ 2013-01-07 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, Paul Gortmaker
The NS8390 chip was essentially the 1st widespread PC ethernet
chip, starting its life on 8 bit ISA cards in the late 1980s.
Even with better technologies available (bus mastering etc)
the 8390 managed to get used on a few rare EISA cards in the
early to mid 1990s.
The EISA bus in the x86 world was largely confined to systems
ranging from 486 to 586 (essentially 200MHz or lower, and less
than 100MB RAM) -- i.e. machines unlikely to be still in service,
and even less likely to be running a 3.9+ kernel.
On top of that, only one of the five really ever was considered
non-experimental; the smc-ultra32 was the one -- since it was
largely just an EISA version of the popular smc-ultra ISA card.
All the others had such a tiny user base that they simply never
could be considered anything more than experimental.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig | 66 +----
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile | 5 -
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c | 431 -----------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c | 445 ------------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c | 433 -----------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c | 346 ------------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c | 463 --------------------------------
7 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2187 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
index 8801217..e49a442 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config NET_VENDOR_8390
bool "National Semi-conductor 8390 devices"
default y
depends on NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI && (AMIGA_PCMCIA || PCI || SUPERH || \
- ISA || EISA || MAC || M32R || MACH_TX49XX || \
+ ISA || MAC || M32R || MACH_TX49XX || \
H8300 || ARM || MIPS || ZORRO || PCMCIA || \
EXPERIMENTAL)
---help---
@@ -33,18 +33,6 @@ config EL2
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
will be called 3c503.
-config AC3200
- tristate "Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on PCI && (ISA || EISA) && EXPERIMENTAL
- select CRC32
- ---help---
- If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read
- the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
- will be called ac3200.
-
config PCMCIA_AXNET
tristate "Asix AX88190 PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
@@ -86,18 +74,6 @@ config E2100
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
will be called e2100.
-config ES3210
- tristate "Racal-Interlan EISA ES3210 support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL
- select CRC32
- ---help---
- If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read
- the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
- will be called es3210.
-
config HPLAN_PLUS
tristate "HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support"
depends on ISA
@@ -140,18 +116,6 @@ config ARM_ETHERH
If you have an Acorn system with one of these network cards, you
should say Y to this option if you wish to use it with Linux.
-config LNE390
- tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL
- select CRC32
- ---help---
- If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read
- the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
- will be called lne390.
-
config MAC8390
bool "Macintosh NS 8390 based ethernet cards"
depends on MAC
@@ -187,8 +151,7 @@ config NE2000
without a specific driver are compatible with NE2000.
If you have a PCI NE2000 card however, say N here and Y to "PCI
- NE2000 and clone support" under "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board
- controllers" below.
+ NE2000 and clone support" below.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
will be called ne.
@@ -223,19 +186,6 @@ config APNE
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called apne.
-config NE3210
- tristate "Novell/Eagle/Microdyne NE3210 EISA support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL
- select CRC32
- ---help---
- If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read
- the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this driver
- will NOT WORK for NE3200 cards as they are completely different.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
- will be called ne3210.
-
config PCMCIA_PCNET
tristate "NE2000 compatible PCMCIA support"
depends on PCMCIA
@@ -285,18 +235,6 @@ config ULTRA
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
will be called smc-ultra.
-config ULTRA32
- tristate "SMC Ultra32 EISA support"
- depends on EISA
- select CRC32
- ---help---
- If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read
- the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
- will be called smc-ultra32.
-
config WD80x3
tristate "WD80*3 support"
depends on ISA
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile
index 8fb462c..e8bb97c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile
@@ -3,26 +3,21 @@
#
obj-$(CONFIG_MAC8390) += mac8390.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_AC3200) += ac3200.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_APNE) += apne.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_ETHERH) += etherh.o
obj-$(CONFIG_AX88796) += ax88796.o
obj-$(CONFIG_E2100) += e2100.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EL2) += 3c503.o 8390p.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ES3210) += es3210.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS) += hp-plus.o 8390p.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HPLAN) += hp.o 8390p.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HYDRA) += hydra.o 8390.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_LNE390) += lne390.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MCF8390) += mcf8390.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NE2000) += ne.o 8390p.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NE2K_PCI) += ne2k-pci.o 8390.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_NE3210) += ne3210.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NE_H8300) += ne-h8300.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA_AXNET) += axnet_cs.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA_PCNET) += pcnet_cs.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_STNIC) += stnic.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ULTRA) += smc-ultra.o 8390.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ULTRA32) += smc-ultra32.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_WD80x3) += wd.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ZORRO8390) += zorro8390.o 8390.o
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ccf0794..0000000
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ba1b5c9..0000000
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 479409b..0000000
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ebcdb52..0000000
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 923e42a..0000000
--
1.8.1
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* Re: [RFC/PATCH net-next 0/1] Delete obsolete 8390 EISA drivers
2013-01-07 18:16 [RFC/PATCH net-next 0/1] Delete obsolete 8390 EISA drivers Paul Gortmaker
2013-01-07 18:16 ` [PATCH net-next 1/1] drivers/net: delete 8390 based " Paul Gortmaker
@ 2013-01-09 1:50 ` David Miller
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2013-01-09 1:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: paul.gortmaker; +Cc: netdev
From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:16:57 -0500
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git delete-8390-EISA
No objections, pulled, thanks Paul.
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