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Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and noobs try to fix them. If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code. We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code behind us. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEE6jPA+I1ugmIBA4hXMUZtbf5SIrsFAmnqqWYACgkQMUZtbf5S IrtEpQ/9F5+8POE6dg6gJVLDKx1+i6GiaOIweAl8h5DatzhBAAGuGr9JyTw0P/iy QX7/SU8WQIhi+LVTYBX9M5bJ3Rf+Iws4dll0CyoTTdOFvGwCAck8Ee/w+1gZdsQY aG0mQPmftfMEdZGX3KXt8UPDWG7QX4w1gSqxqYcSs1ohN6Txi1F94tmgqXgzYHzv vxWP3cF3XTv4eM6BpQj4tiLT3hvrTUfoCZEn9oF4Hn+miYU/yNlWxh0/pmfNjcxd vpNN0VfJVK48uPrj57Ep2x9OjkHPviojrUZT0Y55ENBhn1Lykry4MaxsJVsVYhuC OqJHQYTFyxwT/USTJxs1gplFyO0i37oCEEt43BKm2KS7rYHgc4pQgMJz7R2IS3wL z1xFl45QFt5kX3pw8BvWPXwBomkbDeFORB40Y1qc8RHMfAUKqOhbhzV8rDq9uKup 0nJxdijdh3/2qdO+LB1pU5rq/MbfAxOQSnRJmKLoKLVljaZHMAVbm829sdap8OM+ VMnyPF5hOAuTHV0NZJJ2BbcznI4MFDxM1lNEWFuRC39RQeeGRIHsNMjvs4HMHLaW V827UBXpUOK6HR3nGCKX3VpLJByUYAIkdIKvRugbWdynvXAw+FJUHx4wRzvFi6oi E7ucUY+FI5YOS1rmQJ+rqBjhThcIAdj2U9SNAykDKRVa7zPEUMU= =3vMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski: "Delete some obsolete networking code Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and noobs try to fix them. If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code. We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code behind us" * tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER |
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| devlink | ||
| diagnostic | ||
| dsa | ||
| mac80211_hwsim | ||
| net_cachelines | ||
| pse-pd | ||
| xfrm | ||
| 6lowpan.rst | ||
| af_xdp.rst | ||
| alias.rst | ||
| arcnet-hardware.rst | ||
| arcnet.rst | ||
| atm.rst | ||
| bareudp.rst | ||
| batman-adv.rst | ||
| bonding.rst | ||
| bridge.rst | ||
| can.rst | ||
| can_ucan_protocol.rst | ||
| cdc_mbim.rst | ||
| checksum-offloads.rst | ||
| dctcp.rst | ||
| devmem.rst | ||
| dns_resolver.rst | ||
| driver.rst | ||
| eql.rst | ||
| ethtool-netlink.rst | ||
| failover.rst | ||
| fib_trie.rst | ||
| filter.rst | ||
| gen_stats.rst | ||
| generic-hdlc.rst | ||
| generic_netlink.rst | ||
| gtp.rst | ||
| ieee802154.rst | ||
| ila.rst | ||
| index.rst | ||
| ioam6-sysctl.rst | ||
| iou-zcrx.rst | ||
| ip-sysctl.rst | ||
| ip_dynaddr.rst | ||
| ipsec.rst | ||
| ipv6.rst | ||
| ipvlan.rst | ||
| ipvs-sysctl.rst | ||
| iso15765-2.rst | ||
| j1939.rst | ||
| kapi.rst | ||
| kcm.rst | ||
| l2tp.rst | ||
| lapb-module.rst | ||
| mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt | ||
| mac80211-injection.rst | ||
| mctp.rst | ||
| mpls-sysctl.rst | ||
| mptcp-sysctl.rst | ||
| mptcp.rst | ||
| msg_zerocopy.rst | ||
| multi-pf-netdev.rst | ||
| multiqueue.rst | ||
| napi.rst | ||
| net_dim.rst | ||
| net_failover.rst | ||
| netconsole.rst | ||
| netdev-features.rst | ||
| netdevices.rst | ||
| netfilter-sysctl.rst | ||
| netif-msg.rst | ||
| netmem.rst | ||
| nexthop-group-resilient.rst | ||
| nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst | ||
| nf_flowtable.rst | ||
| nfc.rst | ||
| oa-tc6-framework.rst | ||
| openvswitch.rst | ||
| operstates.rst | ||
| packet_mmap.rst | ||
| page_pool.rst | ||
| phonet.rst | ||
| phy-link-topology.rst | ||
| phy-port.rst | ||
| phy.rst | ||
| pktgen.rst | ||
| plip.rst | ||
| ppp_generic.rst | ||
| proc_net_tcp.rst | ||
| psp.rst | ||
| radiotap-headers.rst | ||
| rds.rst | ||
| regulatory.rst | ||
| representors.rst | ||
| rxrpc.rst | ||
| scaling.rst | ||
| sctp.rst | ||
| secid.rst | ||
| seg6-sysctl.rst | ||
| segmentation-offloads.rst | ||
| sfp-phylink.rst | ||
| skbuff.rst | ||
| smc-sysctl.rst | ||
| snmp_counter.rst | ||
| sriov.rst | ||
| statistics.rst | ||
| strparser.rst | ||
| switchdev.rst | ||
| sysfs-tagging.rst | ||
| tc-actions-env-rules.rst | ||
| tc-queue-filters.rst | ||
| tcp-thin.rst | ||
| tcp_ao.rst | ||
| team.rst | ||
| timestamping.rst | ||
| tipc.rst | ||
| tls-handshake.rst | ||
| tls-offload-layers.svg | ||
| tls-offload-reorder-bad.svg | ||
| tls-offload-reorder-good.svg | ||
| tls-offload.rst | ||
| tls.rst | ||
| tproxy.rst | ||
| tuntap.rst | ||
| udplite.rst | ||
| vrf.rst | ||
| vxlan.rst | ||
| x25-iface.rst | ||
| x25.rst | ||
| xdp-rx-metadata.rst | ||
| xsk-tx-metadata.rst | ||
