It seems that the old developer is no longer with the company producing
this device, and the company has no plans on getting this out of the
staging directory at all, so let's drop the driver for now as it's
pretty much abandonded.
If someone want to support this and get it out of staging, we can easily
revert this change and bring it back.
Cc: Matt Sickler <matt.sickler@msk4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210610183153.2397760-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- bpf:
- allow bpf programs calling kernel functions (initially to
reuse TCP congestion control implementations)
- enable task local storage for tracing programs - remove the
need to store per-task state in hash maps, and allow tracing
programs access to task local storage previously added for
BPF_LSM
- add bpf_for_each_map_elem() helper, allowing programs to walk
all map elements in a more robust and easier to verify fashion
- sockmap: support UDP and cross-protocol BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT
redirection
- lpm: add support for batched ops in LPM trie
- add BTF_KIND_FLOAT support - mostly to allow use of BTF on
s390 which has floats in its headers files
- improve BPF syscall documentation and extend the use of kdoc
parsing scripts we already employ for bpf-helpers
- libbpf, bpftool: support static linking of BPF ELF files
- improve support for encapsulation of L2 packets
- xdp: restructure redirect actions to avoid a runtime lookup,
improving performance by 4-8% in microbenchmarks
- xsk: build skb by page (aka generic zerocopy xmit) - improve
performance of software AF_XDP path by 33% for devices which don't
need headers in the linear skb part (e.g. virtio)
- nexthop: resilient next-hop groups - improve path stability on
next-hops group changes (incl. offload for mlxsw)
- ipv6: segment routing: add support for IPv4 decapsulation
- icmp: add support for RFC 8335 extended PROBE messages
- inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation
- tcp: deal better with delayed TX completions - make sure we don't
give up on fast TCP retransmissions only because driver is slow in
reporting that it completed transmitting the original
- tcp: reorder tcp_congestion_ops for better cache locality
- mptcp:
- add sockopt support for common TCP options
- add support for common TCP msg flags
- include multiple address ids in RM_ADDR
- add reset option support for resetting one subflow
- udp: GRO L4 improvements - improve 'forward' / 'frag_list'
co-existence with UDP tunnel GRO, allowing the first to take place
correctly even for encapsulated UDP traffic
- micro-optimize dev_gro_receive() and flow dissection, avoid
retpoline overhead on VLAN and TEB GRO
- use less memory for sysctls, add a new sysctl type, to allow using
u8 instead of "int" and "long" and shrink networking sysctls
- veth: allow GRO without XDP - this allows aggregating UDP packets
before handing them off to routing, bridge, OvS, etc.
- allow specifing ifindex when device is moved to another namespace
- netfilter:
- nft_socket: add support for cgroupsv2
- nftables: add catch-all set element - special element used to
define a default action in case normal lookup missed
- use net_generic infra in many modules to avoid allocating
per-ns memory unnecessarily
- xps: improve the xps handling to avoid potential out-of-bound
accesses and use-after-free when XPS change race with other
re-configuration under traffic
- add a config knob to turn off per-cpu netdev refcnt to catch
underflows in testing
Device APIs:
- add WWAN subsystem to organize the WWAN interfaces better and
hopefully start driving towards more unified and vendor-
independent APIs
- ethtool:
- add interface for reading IEEE MIB stats (incl. mlx5 and bnxt
support)
- allow network drivers to dump arbitrary SFP EEPROM data,
current offset+length API was a poor fit for modern SFP which
define EEPROM in terms of pages (incl. mlx5 support)
- act_police, flow_offload: add support for packet-per-second
policing (incl. offload for nfp)
- psample: add additional metadata attributes like transit delay for
packets sampled from switch HW (and corresponding egress and
policy-based sampling in the mlxsw driver)
- dsa: improve support for sandwiched LAGs with bridge and DSA
- netfilter:
- flowtable: use direct xmit in topologies with IP forwarding,
bridging, vlans etc.
- nftables: counter hardware offload support
- Bluetooth:
- improvements for firmware download w/ Intel devices
- add support for reading AOSP vendor capabilities
- add support for virtio transport driver
- mac80211:
- allow concurrent monitor iface and ethernet rx decap
- set priority and queue mapping for injected frames
- phy: add support for Clause-45 PHY Loopback
- pci/iov: add sysfs MSI-X vector assignment interface to distribute
MSI-X resources to VFs (incl. mlx5 support)
New hardware/drivers:
- dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for Marvell mv88e6393x - 11-port
Ethernet switch with 8x 1-Gigabit Ethernet and 3x 10-Gigabit
interfaces.
- dsa: support for legacy Broadcom tags used on BCM5325, BCM5365 and
BCM63xx switches
- Microchip KSZ8863 and KSZ8873; 3x 10/100Mbps Ethernet switches
- ath11k: support for QCN9074 a 802.11ax device
- Bluetooth: Broadcom BCM4330 and BMC4334
- phy: Marvell 88X2222 transceiver support
- mdio: add BCM6368 MDIO mux bus controller
- r8152: support RTL8153 and RTL8156 (USB Ethernet) chips
- mana: driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)
- Actions Semi Owl Ethernet MAC
- can: driver for ETAS ES58X CAN/USB interfaces
Pure driver changes:
- add XDP support to: enetc, igc, stmmac
- add AF_XDP support to: stmmac
- virtio:
- page_to_skb() use build_skb when there's sufficient tailroom
(21% improvement for 1000B UDP frames)
- support XDP even without dedicated Tx queues - share the Tx
queues with the stack when necessary
- mlx5:
- flow rules: add support for mirroring with conntrack, matching
on ICMP, GTP, flex filters and more
- support packet sampling with flow offloads
- persist uplink representor netdev across eswitch mode changes
- allow coexistence of CQE compression and HW time-stamping
- add ethtool extended link error state reporting
- ice, iavf: support flow filters, UDP Segmentation Offload
- dpaa2-switch:
- move the driver out of staging
- add spanning tree (STP) support
- add rx copybreak support
- add tc flower hardware offload on ingress traffic
- ionic:
- implement Rx page reuse
- support HW PTP time-stamping
- octeon: support TC hardware offloads - flower matching on ingress
and egress ratelimitting.
- stmmac:
- add RX frame steering based on VLAN priority in tc flower
- support frame preemption (FPE)
- intel: add cross time-stamping freq difference adjustment
- ocelot:
- support forwarding of MRP frames in HW
- support multiple bridges
- support PTP Sync one-step timestamping
- dsa: mv88e6xxx, dpaa2-switch: offload bridge port flags like
learning, flooding etc.
- ipa: add IPA v4.5, v4.9 and v4.11 support (Qualcomm SDX55, SM8350,
SC7280 SoCs)
- mt7601u: enable TDLS support
- mt76:
- add support for 802.3 rx frames (mt7915/mt7615)
- mt7915 flash pre-calibration support
- mt7921/mt7663 runtime power management fixes"
* tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2451 commits)
net: selftest: fix build issue if INET is disabled
net: netrom: nr_in: Remove redundant assignment to ns
net: tun: Remove redundant assignment to ret
net: phy: marvell: add downshift support for M88E1240
net: dsa: ksz: Make reg_mib_cnt a u8 as it never exceeds 255
net/sched: act_ct: Remove redundant ct get and check
icmp: standardize naming of RFC 8335 PROBE constants
bpf, selftests: Update array map tests for per-cpu batched ops
bpf: Add batched ops support for percpu array
bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf
seq_file: Add a seq_bprintf function
sfc: adjust efx->xdp_tx_queue_count with the real number of initialized queues
net:nfc:digital: Fix a double free in digital_tg_recv_dep_req
net: fix a concurrency bug in l2tp_tunnel_register()
net/smc: Remove redundant assignment to rc
mpls: Remove redundant assignment to err
llc2: Remove redundant assignment to rc
net/tls: Remove redundant initialization of record
rds: Remove redundant assignment to nr_sig
dt-bindings: net: mdio-gpio: add compatible for microchip,mdio-smi0
...
The comedi code came into the kernel back in 2008, but traces its
lifetime to much much earlier. It's been polished and buffed and
there's really nothing preventing it from being part of the "real"
portion of the kernel.
So move it to drivers/comedi/ as it belongs there.
Many thanks to the hundreds of developers who did the work to make this
happen.
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YHauop4u3sP6lz8j@kroah.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
As none of the proposed things that need to be changed in the gasket
drivers have ever been done, and there has not been any forward progress
to get this out of staging, it seems totally abandonded so remove the
code entirely so that people do not spend their time doing tiny cleanups
for code that will never get out of staging.
If this code is actually being used, it can be reverted simply and then
cleaned up properly, but as it is abandoned, let's just get rid of it.
Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@chromium.org>
Cc: Richard Yeh <rcy@google.com>
Acked-by: Rob Springer <rspringer@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315154413.3084149-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that the dpaa2-switch driver has basic I/O capabilities on the
switch port net_devices and multiple bridging domains are supported,
move the driver out of staging.
The dpaa2-switch driver is placed right next to the dpaa2-eth driver
since, in the near future, they will be sharing most of the data path.
I didn't implement code reuse in this patch series because I wanted to
keep it as small as possible.
Also, the README is removed from staging with the intention to add
proper rst documentation afterwards to actually match was is supported
by the driver.
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull staging / IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big staging and IIO driver pull request for 5.11-rc1
Lots of different things in here:
- loads of driver updates
- so many coding style cleanups
- new IIO drivers
- Android ION code is finally removed from the tree
- wimax drivers are moved to staging on their way out of the kernel
Nothing really exciting, just the constant grind of kernel development :)
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'staging-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (341 commits)
staging: olpc_dcon: Do not call platform_device_unregister() in dcon_probe()
staging: most: Fix spelling mistake "tranceiver" -> "transceiver"
staging: qlge: remove duplicate word in comment
staging: comedi: mf6x4: Fix AI end-of-conversion detection
staging: greybus: Add TODO item about modernizing the pwm code
pinctrl: ralink: add a pinctrl driver for the rt2880 family
dt-bindings: pinctrl: rt2880: add binding document
staging: rtl8723bs: remove ELEMENT_ID enum
staging: rtl8723bs: remove unused macros
staging: rtl8723bs: replace EID_EXTCapability
staging: rtl8723bs: replace EID_BSSIntolerantChlReport
staging: rtl8723bs: replace EID_BSSCoexistence
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _MME_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _WAPI_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _EXT_SUPPORTEDRATES_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _ERPINFO_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _CHLGETXT_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _COUNTRY_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _IBSS_PARA_IE_
staging: rtl8723bs: replace _TIM_IE_
...
Pull char / misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big char/misc driver update for 5.11-rc1.
Continuing the tradition of previous -rc1 pulls, there seems to be
more and more tiny driver subsystems flowing through this tree.
Lots of different things, all of which have been in linux-next for a
while with no reported issues:
- extcon driver updates
- habannalab driver updates
- mei driver updates
- uio driver updates
- binder fixes and features added
- soundwire driver updates
- mhi bus driver updates
- phy driver updates
- coresight driver updates
- fpga driver updates
- speakup driver updates
- slimbus driver updates
- various small char and misc driver updates"
* tag 'char-misc-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (305 commits)
extcon: max77693: Fix modalias string
extcon: fsa9480: Support TI TSU6111 variant
extcon: fsa9480: Rewrite bindings in YAML and extend
dt-bindings: extcon: add binding for TUSB320
extcon: Add driver for TI TUSB320
slimbus: qcom: fix potential NULL dereference in qcom_slim_prg_slew()
siox: Make remove callback return void
siox: Use bus_type functions for probe, remove and shutdown
spmi: Add driver shutdown support
spmi: fix some coding style issues at the spmi core
spmi: get rid of a warning when built with W=1
uio: uio_hv_generic: use devm_kzalloc() for private data alloc
uio: uio_fsl_elbc_gpcm: use device-managed allocators
uio: uio_aec: use devm_kzalloc() for uio_info object
uio: uio_cif: use devm_kzalloc() for uio_info object
uio: uio_netx: use devm_kzalloc() for or uio_info object
uio: uio_mf624: use devm_kzalloc() for uio_info object
uio: uio_sercos3: use device-managed functions for simple allocs
uio: uio_dmem_genirq: finalize conversion of probe to devm_ handlers
uio: uio_dmem_genirq: convert simple allocations to device-managed
...
There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these
have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether.
As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining
networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly
run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack.
NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
www.linuxwimax.org
site had already shut down earlier.
WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks
("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old
Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the
only driver using the kernel's wimax stack.
Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header
files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets
to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order
to make it possible to port patches across the move.
Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing
list and website.
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
