kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig, branch linux-6.18.y

eth: remove neterion/vxge

2022-07-05T22:26:31Z

The last meaningful change to this driver was made by Jon in 2011. As much as we'd like to believe that this is because the code is perfect the chances are nobody is using this hardware. Because of the size of this driver there is a nontrivial maintenance cost to keeping this code around, in the last 2 years we're averaging more than 1 change a month. Some of which require nontrivial review effort, see commit 877fe9d49b74 ("Revert "drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge: Fix a use-after-free bug in vxge-main.c"") for example. Let's try to remove this driver. In general, IMHO, we need to establish a clear path for shedding dead code. It will be hard to unless we have some experience trying to delete stuff. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701044234.706229-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

docs: networking: reorganize driver documentation again

2020-06-26T23:08:44Z

Organize driver documentation by device type. Most documents have fairly verbose yet uninformative names, so let users first select a well defined device type, and then search for a particular driver. While at it rename the section from Vendor drivers to Hardware drivers. This seems more accurate, besides people sometimes refer to out-of-tree drivers as vendor drivers. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Acked-by: Shannon Nelson Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

2020-06-13T16:57:21Z

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances. This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines, I also fixed the indentation. There are a variety of indentation styles found. a) 4 spaces + '---help---' b) 7 spaces + '---help---' c) 8 spaces + '---help---' d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---' e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation) f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---' g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---' In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the following commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/' Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/vxge.txt to ReST

2020-05-01T19:24:42Z

- add SPDX header; - adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups; - comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/s2io.txt to ReST

2020-05-01T19:24:42Z

- add SPDX header; - add a document title; - comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

2019-05-21T08:50:46Z

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which: - Have no license information of any form These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: documentation: build a directory structure for drivers

2018-12-05T19:30:06Z

Documentation/networking/ is full of cryptically named files with driver documentation. This makes finding interesting information at a glance really hard. Move all those files into a directory called device_drivers (since not all drivers are for device) and fix up references. RFC v0.1 -> RFC v1: - also add .txt suffix to the files which are missing it (Quentin) Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet Acked-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Henrik Austad Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: change Exar/Neterion menu items to be alphabetical

2018-08-01T16:49:02Z

Neterion was standalone for several years, then acquired by Exar and shutdown in 11 months without ever making any new Exar branded adapters. Users would probably think of them as Neterion and not Exar (as there have been no follow-on adapters and the vast majority ever sold were under the Neterion name). 6c541b4595a2 ("net: ethernet: Sort Kconfig sourcing alphabetically") sorted Kconfig sourcing based on directory names, but in a couple cases, the menu item text is quite different from the directory name and is not sorted correctly: drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig => "Exar devices" To address that and clear up any confusion about the name, "Exar" was changed to "Neterion (Exar)" and the relevant entries in the Makefile and Kconfig were reordered to match the alphabetical organization. Inspired-by: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Jon Mason Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

2015-06-23T13:50:35Z

This howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configure ISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the implementation of PCI it became increasingly less and less relevant, to the point where it has been well over a decade since I last updated it. And there is no value in anyone else taking over updating it either. However the references to it continue to spread as boiler plate text from one Kconfig file into the next. We are not doing end users any favours by pointing them at this old document, so lets kill it with fire, once and for all, to hopefully stop any further spread. No code is changed in this commit, just Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Remove bogus dependencies on INET

2012-11-20T00:13:59Z

Various drivers depend on INET because they used to select INET_LRO, but they have all been converted to use GRO which has no such dependency. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller