kernel/net/wimax/debugfs.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

wimax: move out to staging

2020-10-29T18:27:45Z

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 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Acked-by: Johannes Berg Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

wimax: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

2019-08-10T22:25:47Z

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do something different based on this. This cleans up a lot of unneeded code and logic around the debugfs wimax files, making all of this much simpler and easier to understand. Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Cc: linux-wimax@intel.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 268

2019-06-05T15:30:29Z

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma 02110 1301 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 46 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141334.135501091@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wimax: remove blank lines at EOF

2018-07-24T21:10:42Z

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wimax: Add netlink interface to get device state

2009-05-29T01:02:20Z

wimax connection manager / daemon has to know what is current state of the device. Previously it was only possible to get notification whet state has changed. Note: By mistake, the new generic netlink's number for WIMAX_GNL_OP_STATE_GET was declared inserting into the existing list of API calls, not appending; thus, it'd break existing API. Fixed by Inaky Perez-Gonzalez by moving to the tail, where we add to the interface, not modify the interface. Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for catching this. Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas

wimax: fix build issue when debugfs is disabled

2009-01-30T01:18:31Z

As reported by Toralf Förster and Randy Dunlap. - http://linuxwimax.org/pipermail/wimax/2009-January/000460.html - http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/29/279 The definitions needed for the wimax stack and i2400m driver debug infrastructure was, by mistake, compiled depending on CONFIG_DEBUG_FS (by them being placed in the debugfs.c files); thus the build broke in 2.6.29-rc3 when debugging was enabled (CONFIG_WIMAX_DEBUG) and DEBUG_FS was disabled. These definitions are always needed if debug is enabled at compile time (independently of DEBUG_FS being or not enabled), so moving them to a file that is always compiled fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wimax: debugfs controls

2009-01-07T18:00:17Z

Expose knobs to control the stack's debug output. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman