[ANN] removal of certain net drivers coming soon: eepro100, xircom_tulip_cb, iph5526

(GregKH cc'd for his deprecated list)

Though this has already been mentioned, I thought I would send out a 
reminder.  The following net drivers are slated for removal "soon", in 
the next kernel version or so:


1) iphase (iph5526 a.k.a. drivers/net/fc/*)

Been broken since 2.3 or 2.4.  Only janitors have kept it compiling.


2) xircom_tulip_cb

Unmaintained, and does not work for all xircom 32bit cards.  xircom_cb, 
on the other hand, works for ALL xircom 32bit cards.


3) eepro100

Unmaintained; users should use e100.

When I last mentioned eepro100 was going away, I got a few private 
emails saying complaining about issues not yet taken care of in e100. 
eepro100 will not be removed until these issues are resolved.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:45:40PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

1) iphase (iph5526 a.k.a. drivers/net/fc/*)

Been broken since 2.3 or 2.4.  Only janitors have kept it compiling.

No, it doesn't even compile, and didn't so for more than two years.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:45:40PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

(GregKH cc'd for his deprecated list)

It's a file in the Documentation/ directory, feel free to just patch it,
adding entries for these drivers.

thanks,

greg k-h

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jgarzik@pobox.com said:

3) eepro100

Unmaintained; users should use e100.

When I last mentioned eepro100 was going away, I got a few private 
emails saying complaining about issues not yet taken care of in e100. 
eepro100 will not be removed until these issues are resolved.

I have an intel eepro100 card in an old PII 266. With eepro100, it gets
~9Mbit, but e100 struggles to keep its head above 1Mbit, and is very
erratic.

Also, drivers/net/Kconfig still claims that E100_NAPI exists, but the
option to disable napi has long since been removed from the driver.

Jason

--- linux-2.6.10/drivers/net/Kconfig.pre	2005-01-29 15:40:48.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/net/Kconfig	2005-01-29 15:41:01.000000000 -0500

@@ -1435,23 +1435,6 @@
 	  <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>.  The module
 	  will be called e100.
 
-config E100_NAPI
-	bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)"
-	depends on E100
-	help
-	  NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load
-	  when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is
-	  still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default.
-
-	  If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be
-	  deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall),
-	  then say Y here.
-
-	  See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more
-	  information.
-
-	  If in doubt, say N.
-
 config LNE390
 	tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:07:31PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:45:40PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

quoted

1) iphase (iph5526 a.k.a. drivers/net/fc/*)

Been broken since 2.3 or 2.4.  Only janitors have kept it compiling.

No, it doesn't even compile, and didn't so for more than two years.

A patch to remove it is attached.


<--  snip  -->


iph5526 does no longer compile since 2.5 wand was therefore marked as 
broken. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <redacted>

---

 drivers/net/Kconfig             |    9 
 drivers/net/Makefile            |    1 
 drivers/net/fc/Makefile         |    8 
 drivers/net/fc/iph5526.c        | 4645 --------------------------------
 drivers/net/fc/iph5526_ip.h     |   24 
 drivers/net/fc/iph5526_novram.c |  278 -
 drivers/net/fc/iph5526_scsi.h   |   31 
 drivers/net/fc/tach.h           |  475 ---
 drivers/net/fc/tach_structs.h   |  428 --
 9 files changed, 5899 deletions(-)