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
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>
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
Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
to protect our sanity.
The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.
Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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>
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y depends on X86 or EFI_GENERIC_STUB. Neither is
true here, so drop the lines from the defconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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>
HIPPI has not been relevant for over two decades. It was rapidly
eclipsed by Fibre Channel, and even when it was new, it was
confined to very high-end hardware. The HIPPI code has only
received tree-wide changes and fixes by inspection in the entire
Git history. Remove HIPPI support and the rrunner HIPPI driver,
and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file. Keep the
include/uapi/linux/if_hippi.h header because it is used by the TUN
code, and to avoid breaking userspace, however unlikely that may be.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119022451.22344-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai:
"The only slightly large change is the enablement of CIX HD-audio
controller, which took a bit time to be cooked up, while most of other
changes are device-specific small trivial fixes:
- Default disablement of the kconfig for decades old pre-release
alsa-lib PCM API; it's only the default config value change, so it
can't lead to any regressions for the existing setups
- Support for CIX HD-audio controller
- A few ASoC ACP fixes
- Fixes for ASoC cirrus, bcm, wcd, qcom, ak platforms
- Trivial hardening for FireWire and USB-audio
- HD-audio Intel binding fix and quirks"
* tag 'sound-fix-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (30 commits)
ALSA: hda/tas2781: Add new quirk for HP new project
ALSA: hda: cix-ipbloq: Use modern PM ops
ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Prefer legacy driver as fallback
ASoC: amd: acp: update tdm channels for specific DAI
ASoC: cs35l56: Fix incorrect select SND_SOC_CS35L56_CAL_SYSFS_COMMON
ALSA: firewire-motu: add bounds check in put_user loop for DSP events
ASoC: cs35l41: Always return 0 when a subsystem ID is found
ALSA: uapi: Fix typo in asound.h comment
ALSA: Do not build obsolete API
ALSA: hda: add CIX IPBLOQ HDA controller support
ALSA: hda/core: add addr_offset field for bus address translation
ALSA: hda: dt-bindings: add CIX IPBLOQ HDA controller support
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add support for ASUS UM3406GA
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add support for HP Turbine Laptops
ALSA: usb-audio: Initialize status1 to fix uninitialized symbol errors
ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_hda_read_acpi()
ASoC: cros_ec_codec: Remove unnecessary selection of CRYPTO
ASoc: qcom: q6afe: fix bad guard conversion
ASoC: rockchip: Fix Wvoid-pointer-to-enum-cast warning (again)
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