kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq, branch linux-4.3.y

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: ethernet: seeq: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers

2014-10-20T14:21:12Z

A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang

drivers/net: delete non-required instances of include

2014-01-16T19:53:26Z

None of these files are actually using any __init type directives and hence don't need to include . Most are just a left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to code getting copied from one driver to the next. This covers everything under drivers/net except for wireless, which has been submitted separately. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: seeq: slight optimization of addr compare

2013-12-31T21:48:32Z

Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal to instead of memcmp. Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: seeq: use dev_get_platdata()

2013-08-30T21:43:37Z

Use the wrapper function for retrieving the platform data instead of accessing dev->platform_data directly. This is a cosmetic change to make the code simpler and enhance the readability. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: ethernet: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()

2013-05-28T05:34:51Z

The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release or on probe failure, since commit 0998d0631001288a5974afc0b2a5f568bcdecb4d (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound). Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the device driver data to NULL. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre Acked-by: Rob Herring Acked-by: Roland Stigge Acked-by: Mugunthan V N Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten Tested-by: Roland Stigge Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers:net: Remove unnecessary OOM messages after netdev_alloc_skb

2013-03-09T21:09:19Z

Emitting netdev_alloc_skb and netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align OOM messages is unnecessary as there is already a dump_stack after allocation failures. Other trivial changes around these removals: Convert a few comparisons of pointer to 0 to !pointer. Change flow to remove unnecessary label. Remove now unused variable. Hoist assignment from if. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-02-21T20:05:51Z

Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1 There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts: - add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be able to check return values. - remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and updates" Fix up trivial conflicts * tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits) base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values driver-core: constify data for class_find_device() firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER firmware: Make user-mode helper optional firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource() ...

drivers/net/ethernet/seeq: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2013-01-22T20:01:34Z

The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/net: delete old x86 variant of the seeq8005 driver

2013-01-22T15:39:56Z

The last update to the Ethernet HowTo (over 10 years ago) listed this: ------------------------ SEEQ 8005 Status: Obsolete, Driver Name: seeq8005 There is little information about the card included in the driver, and hence little information to be put here. If you have a question, you are probably best trying to e-mail the driver author as listed in the source. It was marked obsolete as of the 2.4 series kernels. ------------------------ If it was obsolete over a decade ago, the situation can not have improved with the passage of time, so let us act on that. Even with today's improved search engines, I was unable to locate any real meaningful information on the ISA implementation of this rare chip. There are ARM and SGI variants of the driver in tree, but they do not depend on the original x86 driver source or header file. We leave those non-x86 drivers to be deleted by the arch maintainers when they decide to expire those legacy platforms as a whole. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker