[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken net drivers

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken net drivers

[Adrian Bunk]

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This patch removes net drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- MAC89x0
- ATARI_BIONET
- ATARI_PAMSNET
- SKMC

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be 
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is 
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed.

 Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt |    6 
 drivers/net/Kconfig                      |   44 
 drivers/net/Makefile                     |    4 
 drivers/net/Space.c                      |   16 
 drivers/net/atari_bionet.c               |  674 ------------
 drivers/net/atari_pamsnet.c              |  894 ----------------
 drivers/net/mac89x0.c                    |  666 ------------
 drivers/net/sk_mca.c                     | 1216 -----------------------
 drivers/net/sk_mca.h                     |  170 ---
 9 files changed, 3690 deletions(-)


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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken net drivers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes net drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> These are the following drivers:
> - MAC89x0

I still have a patch lying around for this one:

http://linux-m68k-cvs.ubb.ca/~geert/linux-m68k-2.6.x-merging/POSTPONED/357-mac89x0.diff

I don't remember 100% why I put it in my POSTPONED queue. Maybe because it was
rejected upstream?

If it's OK (it compiles fine with 2.6.19-rc5), please tell me, and I'll
resubmit it.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove broken net drivers

[smurf]

Hi,

Geert Uytterhoeven:
> I still have a patch lying around for this one:
> 
(Mine)

> If it's OK (it compiles fine with 2.6.19-rc5), please tell me, and I'll
> resubmit it.
> 
Can somebody else please check this, if possible? I won't have time this
week.
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