These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It
was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers
completely. Let's start with these char broken one.
Note that I also removed a UAPI header: include/uapi/linux/cm4000_cs.h.
I found only coccinelle tests mentioning some ioctl constants from that
file. But they are not actually used. Anyway, should someone complain,
we may reintroduce the header (or its parts).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f41c2765-80e0-48bc-b1e4-8cfd3230fd4a@www.fastmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: "Hyunwoo Kim" <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222092302.6348-2-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here is the big set of driver core and debug printk changes for 6.1-rc1.
Included in here is:
- dynamic debug updates for the core and the drm subsystem. The
drm changes have all been acked by the relevant maintainers.
- kernfs fixes for syzbot reported problems
- kernfs refactors and updates for cgroup requirements
- magic number cleanups and removals from the kernel tree (they
were not being used and they really did not actually do
anything.)
- other tiny cleanups
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of driver core and debug printk changes for
6.1-rc1. Included in here is:
- dynamic debug updates for the core and the drm subsystem. The drm
changes have all been acked by the relevant maintainers
- kernfs fixes for syzbot reported problems
- kernfs refactors and updates for cgroup requirements
- magic number cleanups and removals from the kernel tree (they were
not being used and they really did not actually do anything)
- other tiny cleanups
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (74 commits)
docs: filesystems: sysfs: Make text and code for ->show() consistent
Documentation: NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC isn't a magic number
a.out: restore CMAGIC
device property: Add const qualifier to device_get_match_data() parameter
drm_print: add _ddebug descriptor to drm_*dbg prototypes
drm_print: prefer bare printk KERN_DEBUG on generic fn
drm_print: optimize drm_debug_enabled for jump-label
drm-print: add drm_dbg_driver to improve namespace symmetry
drm-print.h: include dyndbg header
drm_print: wrap drm_*_dbg in dyndbg descriptor factory macro
drm_print: interpose drm_*dbg with forwarding macros
drm: POC drm on dyndbg - use in core, 2 helpers, 3 drivers.
drm_print: condense enum drm_debug_category
debugfs: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define debugfs_regset32_fops
driver core: use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper in device_create_groups_vargs()
Documentation: ENI155_MAGIC isn't a magic number
Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number
nbd: remove define-only NBD_MAGIC, previously magic number
Documentation: FW_HEADER_MAGIC isn't a magic number
Documentation: EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE isn't a magic number
...
At least not in the sense described here: it delineates UFS cylinder
groups, is never assigned, and the only macro that incorporates it
(ufs_cg_chkmagic; the second one is unused) is used to detect CGs and
protect from filesystem corruption
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a508477cfeb18eca4a24c29836f809fe34f20467.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In fs/hfs, the only magic is for delineating on-disk block types,
of which HFS_DRVR_DESC_MAGIC HFS_MFS_SUPER_MAGIC are define-only,
but they're out of scope for magic-number.rst
Magic numbers as described there were all removed, along their defines,
in the 2.6.4 "HFS rewrite", pre-git
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e67cec702a7ab34a8c5f7966d930d793a097a90f.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The last user was removed in the 2.6.4 "MIPS mega-patch", pre-git
Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag" | grep -ve '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' \
-qe ':#define '"$mag" || git grep -wF "$mag" | while IFS=: read -r f _;
do sed -i '/\b'"$mag"'\b/d' "$f"; done ; done
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c2e7510beebdd698e20d0704712e623fad00fc1c.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Appeared in its present state in pre-git (2.5.41), never used
Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag" | grep -ve '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' \
-qe ':#define '"$mag" || git grep -wF "$mag" | while IFS=: read -r f _;
do sed -i '/\b'"$mag"'\b/d' "$f"; done ; done
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f6d375201dfd99416ea03b49b3dd40af56c1537e.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The last user was removed in 5.1 in
commit 08300f4402 ("a.out: remove core dumping support")
but this is part of the UAPI headers, so this may want to either wait
until a.out is removed entirely, or be removed from the magic number doc
and silently remain in the header
A cursory glance on DCS didn't show any user code actually using this
value
Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag" | grep -ve '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' \
-qe ':#define '"$mag" || git grep -wF "$mag" | while IFS=: read -r f _;
do sed -i '/\b'"$mag"'\b/d' "$f"; done ; done
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9cbea062df7125ef43e2e0b2a67ede6ad1c5f27e.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The entire file blames back to the start of git
(minus whitespace from the RST translation and a typo fix):
* there are changelog comments for March 1994 through to Linux 2.5.74
* struct tty_ldisc is two pointers nowadays, so naturally no magic
* GDA_MAGIC is defined but unused, and it's been this way
since start-of-git
* M3_CARD_MAGIC isn't defined, because
commit d56b9b9c46 ("[PATCH] The scheduled removal of some OSS
drivers") removed the entire driver in 2006
* CS_CARD_MAGIC likewise since
commit b5d425c97f ("more scheduled OSS driver removal") in 2007
* KMALLOC_MAGIC and VMALLOC_MAGIC were removed in
commit e38e0cfa48 ("[ALSA] Remove kmalloc wrappers"),
six months after start of git
* SLAB_C_MAGIC has never even appeared in git
(removed in 2.4.0-test3pre6)
magic-number.rst is a low-value historial relic at best and
misleading cruft at worst, so start with cleaning out ones that only
appear therein
Automated:
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag" | grep -vq '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' ||
sed -i "/^$mag/d" \
Documentation/{,translations/{zh_CN,zh_TW,it_IT}/}process/magic-number.rst
done
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8389a7b85b5c660c6891b1740b5dacc53491a41b.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
First, it is never checked. Second, use of it as a debugging aid is
at least questionable. With the current tools, I don't think anyone used
this kind of thing for debugging purposes for years.
On the top of that, e.g. serdev does not set this field of tty_ldisc_ops
at all.
So get rid of this legacy.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-8-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
While the driver is still marked as maintained in MAINTAINERS, Comtrol
does not really care about this ancient driver. They are still
manufacturing serial devices, but those are controlled only by
out-of-tree drivers.
Comtrol didn't answer my pings, so this driver is apparently
unmaintained. Aside from that, the driver was untouched for years, only
whole-tree changes happened during the past years. The driver needs much
more care, so drop it for now. If someone steps up to reintroduce it,
they need to clean it up first.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-7-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The Isicom driver was orphaned by commit d86b3001a1 (MAINTAINERS:
orphan isicom) 10 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of them and
to fix all the issues the driver has.
So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-6-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The Cyclades driver was orphaned by commit d459883e6c (MAINTAINERS:
remove two dead e-mail) 13 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of
them and to fix all the issues the driver has.
On the top of that, there is no way to obtain the firmware for Z cards
from the vendor as cyclades.com ceased to exist.
So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-5-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere). The
only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to clean
up our result handling code in the drivers to make it consistent.
Signed-off-by: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere).
The only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to
clean up our result handling code in the drivers to make it
consistent"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (194 commits)
scsi: MAINTAINERS: Adjust to reflect gdth scsi driver removal
scsi: ufs: Give clk scaling min gear a value
scsi: lpfc: Fix 'physical' typos
scsi: megaraid_mbox: Fix spelling of 'allocated'
scsi: qla2xxx: Simplify the calculation of variables
scsi: message: fusion: Fix 'physical' typos
scsi: target: core: Change ASCQ for residual write
scsi: target: core: Signal WRITE residuals
scsi: target: core: Set residuals for 4Kn devices
scsi: hisi_sas: Add trace FIFO debugfs support
scsi: hisi_sas: Flush workqueue in hisi_sas_v3_remove()
scsi: hisi_sas: Enable debugfs support by default
scsi: hisi_sas: Don't check .nr_hw_queues in hisi_sas_task_prep()
scsi: hisi_sas: Remove deferred probe check in hisi_sas_v2_probe()
scsi: lpfc: Add auto select on IRQ_POLL
scsi: ncr53c8xx: Fix typos
scsi: lpfc: Fix ancient double free
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix some memory corruption
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check
scsi: megaraid: Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
...
The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.
Remove kernel's old oprofile support.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The gdth driver refers to a SCSI parallel, PCI-only HBA RAID adapter which
was manufactured by the now-defunct ICP Vortex company, later acquired by
Adaptec and superseded by the aacraid series of controllers. The driver
itself would require a major overhaul before any modifications can be
attempted, but seeing that it's unlikely to have any users left it should
rather be removed completely.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113090500.129644-2-hare@suse.de
Cautiously-Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
I can safely say that this driver has no actual user because it was
not working at all until:
commit 8fdcabeac3 ("drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work")
The code in its current state still has problems:
1.
The uses of "struct x25_asy" in x25_asy_unesc (when receiving) and in
x25_asy_write_wakeup (when sending) are not protected by locks against
x25_asy_change_mtu's changing of the transmitting/receiving buffers.
Also, all "netif_running" checks in this driver are not protected by
locks against the ndo_stop function.
2.
The driver stops all TTY read/write when the netif is down.
I think this is not right because this may cause the last outgoing frame
before the netif goes down to be incompletely transmitted, and the first
incoming frame after the netif goes up to be incompletely received.
And there may also be other problems.
I was planning to fix these problems but after recent discussions about
deleting other old networking code, I think we may just delete this
driver, too.
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201105073434.429307-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This means removing support for checking magic in amiserial.c
(SERIAL_PARANOIA_CHECK option), which was checking a magic field which
doesn't currently exist in the struct. That code hasn't built at least
since git.
Removing the definition from the header is safe anyway as that code was
from another driver and not including it.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105192749.67533-1-pterjan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch does not translate entirely the subfolder "process/"
but only part of it (to begin with).
In order to avoid broken links, I included empty documents
for those which are not yet translated.
In order to be able to refer to all documents in "process/",
I added a sphinx label to those which had not one.
Translated documents:
- howto
- 1.Intro
- clang-format
- coding-style
- kernel-driver-statement
- magic-number
- volatile-considered-harmful
- development-process
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Alessia Mantegazza <amantegazza@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There were some documentation locations that irda was mentioned, as well
as an old MAINTAINERS entry and the networking sysctl entries. Clean
these all out as this stuff really is finally gone.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.
As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Jiri Slaby