Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core:
- Implement the Device Memory TCP transmit path, allowing zero-copy
data transmission on top of TCP from e.g. GPU memory to the wire.
- Move all the IPv6 routing tables management outside the RTNL scope,
under its own lock and RCU. The route control path is now 3x times
faster.
- Convert queue related netlink ops to instance lock, reducing again
the scope of the RTNL lock. This improves the control plane
scalability.
- Refactor the software crc32c implementation, removing unneeded
abstraction layers and improving significantly the related
micro-benchmarks.
- Optimize the GRO engine for UDP-tunneled traffic, for a 10%
performance improvement in related stream tests.
- Cover more per-CPU storage with local nested BH locking; this is a
prep work to remove the current per-CPU lock in local_bh_disable()
on PREMPT_RT.
- Introduce and use nlmsg_payload helper, combining buffer bounds
verification with accessing payload carried by netlink messages.
Netfilter:
- Rewrite the procfs conntrack table implementation, improving
considerably the dump performance. A lot of user-space tools still
use this interface.
- Implement support for wildcard netdevice in netdev basechain and
flowtables.
- Integrate conntrack information into nft trace infrastructure.
- Export set count and backend name to userspace, for better
introspection.
BPF:
- BPF qdisc support: BPF-qdisc can be implemented with BPF struct_ops
programs and can be controlled in similar way to traditional qdiscs
using the "tc qdisc" command.
- Refactor the UDP socket iterator, addressing long standing issues
WRT duplicate hits or missed sockets.
Protocols:
- Improve TCP receive buffer auto-tuning and increase the default
upper bound for the receive buffer; overall this improves the
single flow maximum thoughput on 200Gbs link by over 60%.
- Add AFS GSSAPI security class to AF_RXRPC; it provides transport
security for connections to the AFS fileserver and VL server.
- Improve TCP multipath routing, so that the sources address always
matches the nexthop device.
- Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS for AF_UNIX, to allow disabling SCM_RIGHTS,
and thus preventing DoS caused by passing around problematic FDs.
- Retire DCCP socket. DCCP only receives updates for bugs, and major
distros disable it by default. Its removal allows for better
organisation of TCP fields to reduce the number of cache lines hit
in the fast path.
- Extend TCP drop-reason support to cover PAWS checks.
Driver API:
- Reorganize PTP ioctl flag support to require an explicit opt-in for
the drivers, avoiding the problem of drivers not rejecting new
unsupported flags.
- Converted several device drivers to timestamping APIs.
- Introduce per-PHY ethtool dump helpers, improving the support for
dump operations targeting PHYs.
Tests and tooling:
- Add support for classic netlink in user space C codegen, so that
ynl-c can now read, create and modify links, routes addresses and
qdisc layer configuration.
- Add ynl sub-types for binary attributes, allowing ynl-c to output
known struct instead of raw binary data, clarifying the classic
netlink output.
- Extend MPTCP selftests to improve the code-coverage.
- Add tests for XDP tail adjustment in AF_XDP.
New hardware / drivers:
- OpenVPN virtual driver: offload OpenVPN data channels processing to
the kernel-space, increasing the data transfer throughput WRT the
user-space implementation.
- Renesas glue driver for the gigabit ethernet RZ/V2H(P) SoC.
- Broadcom asp-v3.0 ethernet driver.
- AMD Renoir ethernet device.
- ReakTek MT9888 2.5G ethernet PHY driver.
- Aeonsemi 10G C45 PHYs driver.
Drivers:
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- refactor the steering table handling to significantly
reduce the amount of memory used
- add support for complex matches in H/W flow steering
- improve flow streeing error handling
- convert to netdev instance locking
- Intel (100G, ice, igb, ixgbe, idpf):
- ice: add switchdev support for LLDP traffic over VF
- ixgbe: add firmware manipulation and regions devlink support
- igb: introduce support for frame transmission premption
- igb: adds persistent NAPI configuration
- idpf: introduce RDMA support
- idpf: add initial PTP support
- Meta (fbnic):
- extend hardware stats coverage
- add devlink dev flash support
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- add support for RX-side device memory TCP
- Wangxun (txgbe):
- implement support for udp tunnel offload
- complete PTP and SRIOV support for AML 25G/10G devices
- Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
- Google (gve):
- add device memory TCP TX support
- Amazon (ena):
- support persistent per-NAPI config
- Airoha:
- add H/W support for L2 traffic offload
- add per flow stats for flow offloading
- RealTek (rtl8211): add support for WoL magic packet
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- dwmac-socfpga 1000BaseX support
- add Loongson-2K3000 support
- introduce support for hardware-accelerated VLAN stripping
- Broadcom (bcmgenet):
- expose more H/W stats
- Freescale (enetc, dpaa2-eth):
- enetc: add MAC filter, VLAN filter RSS and loopback support
- dpaa2-eth: convert to H/W timestamping APIs
- vxlan: convert FDB table to rhashtable, for better scalabilty
- veth: apply qdisc backpressure on full ring to reduce TX drops
- Ethernet switches:
- Microchip (kzZ88x3): add ETS scheduler support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- RealTek (rtl8211):
- add support for WoL magic packet
- add support for PHY LEDs
- CAN:
- Adds RZ/G3E CANFD support to the rcar_canfd driver.
- Preparatory work for CAN-XL support.
- Add self-tests framework with support for CAN physical interfaces.
- WiFi:
- mac80211:
- scan improvements with multi-link operation (MLO)
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- enable AHB support for IPQ5332
- add monitor interface support to QCN9274
- add multi-link operation support to WCN7850
- add 802.11d scan offload support to WCN7850
- monitor mode for WCN7850, better 6 GHz regulatory
- Qualcomm (ath11k):
- restore hibernation support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WiFi-7 improvements
- implement support for mt7990
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- enhanced multi-link single-radio (EMLSR) support on 5 GHz links
- rework device configuration
- RealTek (rtw88):
- improve throughput for RTL8814AU
- RealTek (rtw89):
- add multi-link operation support
- STA/P2P concurrency improvements
- support different SAR configs by antenna
- Bluetooth:
- introduce HCI Driver protocol
- btintel_pcie: do not generate coredump for diagnostic events
- btusb: add HCI Drv commands for configuring altsetting
- btusb: add RTL8851BE device 0x0bda:0xb850
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3584 for MT7922
- btusb: add new VID/PID 13d3/3630 and 13d3/3613 for MT7925
- btnxpuart: implement host-wakeup feature"
* tag 'net-next-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1611 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix bpf selftest build warning
selftests: netfilter: Fix skip of wildcard interface test
net: phy: mscc: Stop clearing the the UDPv4 checksum for L2 frames
net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
calipso: Don't call calipso functions for AF_INET sk.
selftests/tc-testing: Add a test for HFSC eltree double add with reentrant enqueue behaviour on netem
net_sched: hfsc: Address reentrant enqueue adding class to eltree twice
octeontx2-pf: QOS: Refactor TC_HTB_LEAF_DEL_LAST callback
octeontx2-pf: QOS: Perform cache sync on send queue teardown
net: mana: Add support for Multi Vports on Bare metal
net: devmem: ncdevmem: remove unused variable
net: devmem: ksft: upgrade rx test to send 1K data
net: devmem: ksft: add 5 tuple FS support
net: devmem: ksft: add exit_wait to make rx test pass
net: devmem: ksft: add ipv4 support
net: devmem: preserve sockc_err
page_pool: fix ugly page_pool formatting
net: devmem: move list_add to net_devmem_bind_dmabuf.
selftests: netfilter: nft_queue.sh: include file transfer duration in log message
net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
...
tcrypt is actually a benchmarking module and not the actual tests. This
regularly causes confusion. Update the kconfig option name and help
text accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
DCCP was orphaned in 2021 by commit 054c4610bd ("MAINTAINERS: dccp:
move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS"), which noted that the last maintainer
had been inactive for five years.
In recent years, it has become a playground for syzbot, and most changes
to DCCP have been odd bug fixes triggered by syzbot. Apart from that,
the only changes have been driven by treewide or networking API updates
or adjustments related to TCP.
Thus, in 2023, we announced we would remove DCCP in 2025 via commit
b144fcaf46 ("dccp: Print deprecation notice.").
Since then, only one individual has contacted the netdev mailing list. [0]
There is ongoing research for Multipath DCCP. The repository is hosted
on GitHub [1], and development is not taking place through the upstream
community. While the repository is published under the GPLv2 license,
the scheduling part remains proprietary, with a LICENSE file [2] stating:
"This is not Open Source software."
The researcher mentioned a plan to address the licensing issue, upstream
the patches, and step up as a maintainer, but there has been no further
communication since then.
Maintaining DCCP for a decade without any real users has become a burden.
Therefore, it's time to remove it.
Removing DCCP will also provide significant benefits to TCP. It allows
us to freely reorganize the layout of struct inet_connection_sock, which
is currently shared with DCCP, and optimize it to reduce the number of
cachelines accessed in the TCP fast path.
Note that we keep DCCP netfilter modules as requested. [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230710182253.81446-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/T/#u #[0]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp #[1]
Link: https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp/blob/mpdccp_v03_k5.10/net/dccp/non_gpl_scheduler/LICENSE #[2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_VQ0KlCRkqYWXa-@calendula/ #[3]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> (LSM and SELinux)
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250410023921.11307-3-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This option was removed from the Kconfig in commit
8c710f7525 ("net/sched: Retire tcindex classifier") but it was not
removed from the defconfigs.
Fixes: 8c710f7525 ("net/sched: Retire tcindex classifier")
Signed-off-by: Johan Korsnes <johan.korsnes@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
As discussed at LSF/MM [1] [2] and with no objections raised there,
deprecate the SLAB allocator. Rename the user-visible option so that
users with CONFIG_SLAB=y get a new prompt with explanation during make
oldconfig, while make olddefconfig will just switch to SLUB.
In all defconfigs with CONFIG_SLAB=y remove the line so those also
switch to SLUB. Regressions due to the switch should be reported to
linux-mm and slab maintainers.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b9fc9c6-b48c-198f-5f80-811a44737e5f@suse.cz/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Introduce and use a single page frag cache for allocating small skb
heads, clawing back the 10-20% performance regression in UDP flood
test from previous fixes.
- Run packets which already went thru HW coalescing thru SW GRO. This
significantly improves TCP segment coalescing and simplifies
deployments as different workloads benefit from HW or SW GRO.
- Shrink the size of the base zero-copy send structure.
- Move TCP init under a new slow / sleepable version of DO_ONCE().
BPF:
- Add BPF-specific, any-context-safe memory allocator.
- Add helpers/kfuncs for PKCS#7 signature verification from BPF
programs.
- Define a new map type and related helpers for user space -> kernel
communication over a ring buffer (BPF_MAP_TYPE_USER_RINGBUF).
- Allow targeting BPF iterators to loop through resources of one
task/thread.
- Add ability to call selected destructive functions. Expose
crash_kexec() to allow BPF to trigger a kernel dump. Use
CAP_SYS_BOOT check on the loading process to judge permissions.
- Enable BPF to collect custom hierarchical cgroup stats efficiently
by integrating with the rstat framework.
- Support struct arguments for trampoline based programs. Only
structs with size <= 16B and x86 are supported.
- Invoke cgroup/connect{4,6} programs for unprivileged ICMP ping
sockets (instead of just TCP and UDP sockets).
- Add a helper for accessing CLOCK_TAI for time sensitive network
related programs.
- Support accessing network tunnel metadata's flags.
- Make TCP SYN ACK RTO tunable by BPF programs with TCP Fast Open.
- Add support for writing to Netfilter's nf_conn:mark.
Protocols:
- WiFi: more Extremely High Throughput (EHT) and Multi-Link Operation
(MLO) work (802.11be, WiFi 7).
- vsock: improve support for SO_RCVLOWAT.
- SMC: support SO_REUSEPORT.
- Netlink: define and document how to use netlink in a "modern" way.
Support reporting missing attributes via extended ACK.
- IPSec: support collect metadata mode for xfrm interfaces.
- TCPv6: send consistent autoflowlabel in SYN_RECV state and RST
packets.
- TCP: introduce optional per-netns connection hash table to allow
better isolation between namespaces (opt-in, at the cost of memory
and cache pressure).
- MPTCP: support TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT.
- Add NEXT-C-SID support in Segment Routing (SRv6) End behavior.
- Adjust IP_UNICAST_IF sockopt behavior for connected UDP sockets.
- Open vSwitch:
- Allow specifying ifindex of new interfaces.
- Allow conntrack and metering in non-initial user namespace.
- TLS: support the Korean ARIA-GCM crypto algorithm.
- Remove DECnet support.
Driver API:
- Allow selecting the conduit interface used by each port in DSA
switches, at runtime.
- Ethernet Power Sourcing Equipment and Power Device support.
- Add tc-taprio support for queueMaxSDU parameter, i.e. setting per
traffic class max frame size for time-based packet schedules.
- Support PHY rate matching - adapting between differing host-side
and link-side speeds.
- Introduce QUSGMII PHY mode and 1000BASE-KX interface mode.
- Validate OF (device tree) nodes for DSA shared ports; make
phylink-related properties mandatory on DSA and CPU ports.
Enforcing more uniformity should allow transitioning to phylink.
- Require that flash component name used during update matches one of
the components for which version is reported by info_get().
- Remove "weight" argument from driver-facing NAPI API as much as
possible. It's one of those magic knobs which seemed like a good
idea at the time but is too indirect to use in practice.
- Support offload of TLS connections with 256 bit keys.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- Microchip KSZ9896 6-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
- Renesas Ethernet AVB (EtherAVB-IF) Gen4 SoCs
- Analog Devices ADIN1110 and ADIN2111 industrial single pair
Ethernet (10BASE-T1L) MAC+PHY.
- Rockchip RV1126 Gigabit Ethernet (a version of stmmac IP).
- Ethernet SFPs / modules:
- RollBall / Hilink / Turris 10G copper SFPs
- HALNy GPON module
- WiFi:
- CYW43439 SDIO chipset (brcmfmac)
- CYW89459 PCIe chipset (brcmfmac)
- BCM4378 on Apple platforms (brcmfmac)
Drivers:
- CAN:
- gs_usb: HW timestamp support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- lan8814: cable diagnostics
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (100G):
- implement control of FCS/CRC stripping
- port splitting via devlink
- L2TPv3 filtering offload
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- tunnel offload for sub-functions
- MACSec offload, w/ Extended packet number and replay window
offload
- significantly restructure, and optimize the AF_XDP support,
align the behavior with other vendors
- Huawei:
- configuring DSCP map for traffic class selection
- querying standard FEC statistics
- querying SerDes lane number via ethtool
- Marvell/Cavium:
- egress priority flow control
- MACSec offload
- AMD/SolarFlare:
- PTP over IPv6 and raw Ethernet
- small / embedded:
- ax88772: convert to phylink (to support SFP cages)
- altera: tse: convert to phylink
- ftgmac100: support fixed link
- enetc: standard Ethtool counters
- macb: ZynqMP SGMII dynamic configuration support
- tsnep: support multi-queue and use page pool
- lan743x: Rx IP & TCP checksum offload
- igc: add xdp frags support to ndo_xdp_xmit
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- Marvell (prestera):
- support SPAN port features (traffic mirroring)
- nexthop object offloading
- Microchip (sparx5):
- multicast forwarding offload
- QoS queuing offload (tc-mqprio, tc-tbf, tc-ets)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- support RGMII cmode
- NXP (felix):
- standardized ethtool counters
- Microchip (lan966x):
- QoS queuing offload (tc-mqprio, tc-tbf, tc-cbs, tc-ets)
- traffic policing and mirroring
- link aggregation / bonding offload
- QUSGMII PHY mode support
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- cold boot calibration support on WCN6750
- support to connect to a non-transmit MBSSID AP profile
- enable remain-on-channel support on WCN6750
- Wake-on-WLAN support for WCN6750
- support to provide transmit power from firmware via nl80211
- support to get power save duration for each client
- spectral scan support for 160 MHz
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- WiFi-to-Ethernet bridging offload for MT7986 chips
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- P2P support"
* tag 'net-next-6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1864 commits)
eth: pse: add missing static inlines
once: rename _SLOW to _SLEEPABLE
net: pse-pd: add regulator based PSE driver
dt-bindings: net: pse-dt: add bindings for regulator based PoDL PSE controller
ethtool: add interface to interact with Ethernet Power Equipment
net: mdiobus: search for PSE nodes by parsing PHY nodes.
net: mdiobus: fwnode_mdiobus_register_phy() rework error handling
net: add framework to support Ethernet PSE and PDs devices
dt-bindings: net: phy: add PoDL PSE property
net: marvell: prestera: Propagate nh state from hw to kernel
net: marvell: prestera: Add neighbour cache accounting
net: marvell: prestera: add stub handler neighbour events
net: marvell: prestera: Add heplers to interact with fib_notifier_info
net: marvell: prestera: Add length macros for prestera_ip_addr
net: marvell: prestera: add delayed wq and flush wq on deinit
net: marvell: prestera: Add strict cleanup of fib arbiter
net: marvell: prestera: Add cleanup of allocated fib_nodes
net: marvell: prestera: Add router nexthops ABI
eth: octeon: fix build after netif_napi_add() changes
net/mlx5: E-Switch, Return EBUSY if can't get mode lock
...
DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.
It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.
Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.
The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This driver received nothing but automated fixes in the last 15 years.
Since it's using virt_to_bus it's unlikely to be used on any modern
platform.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This driver received nothing but automated fixes since git era begun.
Since it's using virt_to_bus it's unlikely to be used on any modern
platform.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This driver received nothing but automated fixes (mostly spelling
and compiler warnings) since git era begun. Since it's using
virt_to_bus it's unlikely to be used on any modern platform.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The driver for ATM Ambassador devices spews build warnings on
microblaze. The virt_to_bus() calls discard the volatile keyword.
The right thing to do would be to migrate this driver to a modern
DMA API but it seems unlikely anyone is actually using it.
There had been no fixes or functional changes here since
the git era begun.
In fact it sounds like the FW loading was broken from 2008
'til 2012 - see commit fcdc90b025 ("atm: forever loop loading
ambassador firmware").
Let's remove this driver, there isn't much changing in the APIs,
if users come forward we can apologize and revert.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220321144013.440d7fc0@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The driver for LAN Media WAN interfaces spews build warnings on
microblaze. The virt_to_bus() calls discard the volatile keyword.
The right thing to do would be to migrate this driver to a modern
DMA API but it seems unlikely anyone is actually using it.
There had been no fixes or functional changes here since
the git era begun.
Let's remove this driver, there isn't much changing in the APIs,
if users come forward we can apologize and revert.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220321144013.440d7fc0@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull MIPS updates from Thomas Bogendoerfer:
- enable GCOV
- rework setup of protection map
- add support for more MSCC platforms
- add sysfs boardinfo for Loongson64
- enable KASLR for Loogson64
- add reset controller for BCM63xx
- cleanups and fixes
* tag 'mips_5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux: (70 commits)
mips: fix Section mismatch in reference
MAINTAINERS: Add linux-mips mailing list to JZ47xx entries
MAINTAINERS: Remove JZ4780 DMA driver entry
MAINTAINERS: chenhc@lemote.com -> chenhuacai@kernel.org
MIPS: Octeon: irq: Alloc desc before configuring IRQ
MIPS: mm: Add back define for PAGE_SHARED
MIPS: Select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK if DEBUG_KERNEL to enable sysfs memblock debug
mips: lib: uncached: fix non-standard usage of variable 'sp'
MIPS: DTS: img: Fix schema warnings for pwm-leds
MIPS: KASLR: Avoid endless loop in sync_icache if synci_step is zero
MIPS: Move memblock_dump_all() to the end of setup_arch()
MIPS: SMP-CPS: Add support for irq migration when CPU offline
MIPS: OCTEON: Don't add kernel sections into memblock allocator
MIPS: Don't round up kernel sections size for memblock_add()
MIPS: Enable GCOV
MIPS: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
MIPS: Loongson64: Fix up reserving kernel memory range
MIPS: mm: Remove unused is_aligned_hugepage_range
MIPS: No need to check CPU 0 in {loongson3,bmips,octeon}_cpu_disable()
mips: cdmm: fix use-after-free in mips_cdmm_bus_discover
...
Commit 7ecdea4a02 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
unused") removed geenric_bl driver from the tree, together with
corresponding config option.
Remove BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config item from all MIPS configurations.
Fixes: 7ecdea4a02 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is unused")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
The DLCI driver (dlci.c) implements the Frame Relay protocol. However,
we already have another newer and better implementation of Frame Relay
provided by the HDLC_FR driver (hdlc_fr.c).
The DLCI driver's implementation of Frame Relay is used by only one
hardware driver in the kernel - the SDLA driver (sdla.c).
The SDLA driver provides Frame Relay support for the Sangoma S50x devices.
However, the vendor provides their own driver (along with their own
multi-WAN-protocol implementations including Frame Relay), called WANPIPE.
I believe most users of the hardware would use the vendor-provided WANPIPE
driver instead.
(The WANPIPE driver was even once in the kernel, but was deleted in
commit 8db60bcf30 ("[WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma
drivers.") because the vendor no longer updated the in-kernel WANPIPE
driver.)
Cc: Mike McLagan <mike.mclagan@linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201114150921.685594-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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>
Commit 5d6be6a5 ("scsi_netlink : Make SCSI_NETLINK dependent on NET
instead of selecting NET") removed what happened to be the only instance
of 'select NET'. Defconfigs that were relying on the select now lack
networking support.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Convert the Alchemy platform to register the ohci-platform driver, now that
the ohci-platform driver properly handles the specific ohci-au1xxx resume
from suspend case.
This also greatly simplifies the power_{on,off} callbacks and make them
work on platform device id instead of checking the OHCI controller base
address like what was done in ohci-au1xxx.c.
Impacted defconfigs are also updated accordingly to select the OHCI platform
driver.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>