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2021-03-10tty: remove TTY_LDISC_MAGICJiri Slaby
First, it is never checked. Second, use of it as a debugging aid is at least questionable. With the current tools, I don't think anyone used this kind of thing for debugging purposes for years. On the top of that, e.g. serdev does not set this field of tty_ldisc_ops at all. So get rid of this legacy. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-8-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10tty: rocket, remove the driverJiri Slaby
While the driver is still marked as maintained in MAINTAINERS, Comtrol does not really care about this ancient driver. They are still manufacturing serial devices, but those are controlled only by out-of-tree drivers. Comtrol didn't answer my pings, so this driver is apparently unmaintained. Aside from that, the driver was untouched for years, only whole-tree changes happened during the past years. The driver needs much more care, so drop it for now. If someone steps up to reintroduce it, they need to clean it up first. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-7-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10tty: isicom, remove this orphanJiri Slaby
The Isicom driver was orphaned by commit d86b3001a1a6 (MAINTAINERS: orphan isicom) 10 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of them and to fix all the issues the driver has. So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-6-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10tty: cyclades, remove this orphanJiri Slaby
The Cyclades driver was orphaned by commit d459883e6c54 (MAINTAINERS: remove two dead e-mail) 13 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of them and to fix all the issues the driver has. On the top of that, there is no way to obtain the firmware for Z cards from the vendor as cyclades.com ceased to exist. So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-5-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-02-22Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere). The only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to clean up our result handling code in the drivers to make it consistent" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (194 commits) scsi: MAINTAINERS: Adjust to reflect gdth scsi driver removal scsi: ufs: Give clk scaling min gear a value scsi: lpfc: Fix 'physical' typos scsi: megaraid_mbox: Fix spelling of 'allocated' scsi: qla2xxx: Simplify the calculation of variables scsi: message: fusion: Fix 'physical' typos scsi: target: core: Change ASCQ for residual write scsi: target: core: Signal WRITE residuals scsi: target: core: Set residuals for 4Kn devices scsi: hisi_sas: Add trace FIFO debugfs support scsi: hisi_sas: Flush workqueue in hisi_sas_v3_remove() scsi: hisi_sas: Enable debugfs support by default scsi: hisi_sas: Don't check .nr_hw_queues in hisi_sas_task_prep() scsi: hisi_sas: Remove deferred probe check in hisi_sas_v2_probe() scsi: lpfc: Add auto select on IRQ_POLL scsi: ncr53c8xx: Fix typos scsi: lpfc: Fix ancient double free scsi: qla2xxx: Fix some memory corruption scsi: qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check scsi: megaraid: Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings ...
2021-01-29drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE supportViresh Kumar
The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to the perf interfaces. Remove kernel's old oprofile support. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2021-01-22scsi: Drop gdth driverHannes Reinecke
The gdth driver refers to a SCSI parallel, PCI-only HBA RAID adapter which was manufactured by the now-defunct ICP Vortex company, later acquired by Adaptec and superseded by the aacraid series of controllers. The driver itself would require a major overhaul before any modifications can be attempted, but seeing that it's unlikely to have any users left it should rather be removed completely. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113090500.129644-2-hare@suse.de Cautiously-Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2020-11-07net: x25_asy: Delete the x25_asy driverXie He
This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links. I can safely say that this driver has no actual user because it was not working at all until: commit 8fdcabeac398 ("drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work") The code in its current state still has problems: 1. The uses of "struct x25_asy" in x25_asy_unesc (when receiving) and in x25_asy_write_wakeup (when sending) are not protected by locks against x25_asy_change_mtu's changing of the transmitting/receiving buffers. Also, all "netif_running" checks in this driver are not protected by locks against the ndo_stop function. 2. The driver stops all TTY read/write when the netif is down. I think this is not right because this may cause the last outgoing frame before the netif goes down to be incompletely transmitted, and the first incoming frame after the netif goes up to be incompletely received. And there may also be other problems. I was planning to fix these problems but after recent discussions about deleting other old networking code, I think we may just delete this driver, too. Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201105073434.429307-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2019-11-13Remove every trace of SERIAL_MAGICPascal Terjan
This means removing support for checking magic in amiserial.c (SERIAL_PARANOIA_CHECK option), which was checking a magic field which doesn't currently exist in the struct. That code hasn't built at least since git. Removing the definition from the header is safe anyway as that code was from another driver and not including it. Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@google.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105192749.67533-1-pterjan@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-20doc:it_IT: add some process/* translationsFederico Vaga
This patch does not translate entirely the subfolder "process/" but only part of it (to begin with). In order to avoid broken links, I included empty documents for those which are not yet translated. In order to be able to refer to all documents in "process/", I added a sphinx label to those which had not one. Translated documents: - howto - 1.Intro - clang-format - coding-style - kernel-driver-statement - magic-number - volatile-considered-harmful - development-process Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Alessia Mantegazza <amantegazza@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removalGreg Kroah-Hartman
There were some documentation locations that irda was mentioned, as well as an old MAINTAINERS entry and the networking sysctl entries. Clean these all out as this stuff really is finally gone. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-26Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typoMartin Kepplinger
This fixes a little then / them confusion. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-24docs-rst: add documents to development-processMauro Carvalho Chehab
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book. As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those documents on their original place. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>