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Mauro Carvalho Chehab baa293e954 docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other
orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book.

Move them to their right place.

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts
Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Dan Williams d4dd70915e acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_size
The "Clear Error Unit" may be smaller than the ECC unit size on some
devices. For example, poison may be tracked at 64-byte alignment even
though the ECC unit is larger. Unless / until the ACPI specification
provides a non-ambiguous way to communicate this property do not expose
this to userspace.

Software that had been using this property must already be prepared for
the case where the property is not provided on older kernels, so it is
safe to remove this attribute.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2018-06-03 12:49:15 -07:00
João Paulo Rechi Vita e2a35e8929 rfkill: Remove obsolete "claim" sysfs interface
This was scheduled to be removed in 2012 by:

 commit 69c86373c6
 Author: florian@mickler.org <florian@mickler.org>
 Date:   Wed Feb 24 12:05:16 2010 +0100

     Document the rfkill sysfs ABI

     This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
     ABI subfolder and reformats it.

     This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
     2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).

     Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-24 09:04:24 +01:00
Dan Williams 7bced39751 net_dma: simple removal
Per commit "77873803363c net_dma: mark broken" net_dma is no longer used
and there is no plan to fix it.

This is the mechanical removal of bits in CONFIG_NET_DMA ifdef guards.
Reverting the remainder of the net_dma induced changes is deferred to
subsequent patches.

Marked for stable due to Roman's report of a memory leak in
dma_pin_iovec_pages():

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/3/177

Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: David Whipple <whipple@securedatainnovations.ch>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2014-09-28 07:05:16 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso d16cf20e2f netfilter: remove ip_queue support
This patch removes ip_queue support which was marked as obsolete
years ago. The nfnetlink_queue modules provides more advanced
user-space packet queueing mechanism.

This patch also removes capability code included in SELinux that
refers to ip_queue. Otherwise, we break compilation.

Several warning has been sent regarding this to the mailing list
in the past month without anyone rising the hand to stop this
with some strong argument.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-05-08 20:25:42 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman bc5bca53cc driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email address
My old email address was used in a lot of documentation files, so fix
this up to point to the correct one now.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-02-15 14:48:01 -08:00
Sean M. Collins 6ffe1ffb07 doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
Signed-off-by: Sean M. Collins <sean@coreitpro.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-27 18:08:05 +02:00
Jesper Juhl e117d10d31 Documentation/ABI/: update version number references from 2.6.x to 3.x
Update the version number references from 2.6.x to 3.x
Also correct spelling of "May" (was spelled "Mai").

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-08-05 13:32:40 +02:00
Amerigo Wang 69a60c4d17 ocfs2: remove the /sys/o2cb symlink
It is obsoleted since Dec 2005.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
2011-05-23 23:37:14 -07:00
Stefan Richter 66fa12c571 ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack
The drivers
  - ohci1394 (controller driver)
  - ieee1394 (core)
  - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
  - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
  - firewire-ohci (controller driver)
  - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
  - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.

The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core.  Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.

The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare.  Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.

The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.

There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
  - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
    NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
    I am looking into the M52xx issue.
  - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
    experimental cousin eth1394.
  - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
    chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
    This issue is still under investigation.
  - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers.  Of them,
    only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
    Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.

All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden.  The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-10-11 14:48:03 +02:00
Stefan Richter 53c96b4174 ieee1394: remove old isochronous ABI
Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}"
from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006.

This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and
disables them in pcilynx.  That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and
hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception
and transmission.

Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso
interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no
longer useful for isochronous applications.

raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the
requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-07-10 00:07:41 +02:00
Michael Opdenacker 59c51591a0 Fix occurrences of "the the "
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
jens m. noedler 6d99eb33f5 Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!
Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00