2007-08-27 21:36:12

by Adrian Bunk

Subject: [2.6.24 patch] the planned eepro100 removal

This patch contains the planned removal of the eepro100 driver.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

---

This patch has been sent on:
- 14 Aug 2007
- 29 Jul 2007

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8
MAINTAINERS | 5
drivers/net/Kconfig | 14
drivers/net/Makefile | 1
drivers/net/eepro100.c | 2411 ---------------------
5 files changed, 2439 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/MAINTAINERS.old 2007-01-02 21:29:08.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/MAINTAINERS 2007-01-02 21:29:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -1077,11 +1077,6 @@
W: bluesmoke.sourceforge.net
S: Maintained

-EEPRO100 NETWORK DRIVER
-P: Andrey V. Savochkin
-M: [email protected]
-S: Maintained
-
EFS FILESYSTEM
W: http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/
S: Orphan
--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/Kconfig.old 2007-01-02 21:29:22.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/Kconfig 2007-01-02 21:29:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -1471,20 +1471,6 @@
<file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module
will be called dgrs.

-config EEPRO100
- tristate "EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)"
- depends on NET_PCI && PCI
- select MII
- help
- If you have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI network (Ethernet)
- card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
- <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read
- <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module
- will be called eepro100.
-
-
config E100
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/100+ support"
depends on NET_PCI && PCI
--- linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/Makefile.old 2007-01-02 21:29:44.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/Makefile 2007-01-02 21:29:51.000000000 +0100
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_TYPHOON) += typhoon.o
obj-$(CONFIG_NE2K_PCI) += ne2k-pci.o 8390.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PCNET32) += pcnet32.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_EEPRO100) += eepro100.o
obj-$(CONFIG_E100) += e100.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TLAN) += tlan.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EPIC100) += epic100.o

--- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.old 2007-06-30 00:10:08.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-06-30 00:10:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -97,13 +97,6 @@

---------------------------

-What: eepro100 network driver
-When: January 2007
-Why: replaced by the e100 driver
-Who: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
-
----------------------------
-
What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
(temporary transition config option provided until then)
The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.

2007-08-27 22:00:15

by Kok, Auke

Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] the planned eepro100 removal

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the planned removal of the eepro100 driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

you lost your e-mail address? :)

> ---
>
> This patch has been sent on:
> - 14 Aug 2007
> - 29 Jul 2007

currently we won't have e100 fixed up for ARM in 2.6.23, so removing this for
2.6.24 sounds a bit premature. Maybe 2.6.25. Can you reschedule/postpone this?

Auke

2007-08-28 04:19:31

by Adrian Bunk

Subject: Re: [2.6.24 patch] the planned eepro100 removal

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:58:05PM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
>> This patch has been sent on:
>> - 14 Aug 2007
>> - 29 Jul 2007
>
> currently we won't have e100 fixed up for ARM in 2.6.23, so removing this
> for 2.6.24 sounds a bit premature. Maybe 2.6.25. Can you
> reschedule/postpone this?

OK, I'll resend it after 2.6.24-rc1.

> Auke

cu
Adrian

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