eth: remove the DLink/Sundance (ST201) driver

Konstantin reports the maintainer's address bounces.
There is no other maintainer and the driver is quite old.
There is a good chance nobody is using th

eth: remove the DLink/Sundance (ST201) driver

Konstantin reports the maintainer's address bounces.
There is no other maintainer and the driver is quite old.
There is a good chance nobody is using this driver any more.
Let's try to remove it completely, we can revert it back in
if someone complains.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240925-bizarre-earwig-from-pluto-1484aa@lemu/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Denis Kirjanov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasi

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>

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treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

- Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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dl2k: Add support for IP1000A-based cards

Add support for IP1000A chips to dl2k driver.
IP1000A chip looks like a TC9020 with integrated PHY.

This allows IP1000A chips to work reliably because the

dl2k: Add support for IP1000A-based cards

Add support for IP1000A chips to dl2k driver.
IP1000A chip looks like a TC9020 with integrated PHY.

This allows IP1000A chips to work reliably because the ipg driver is
buggy - it loses packets under load and then completely stops
transmitting data.

Tested with Asus NX1101 v2.0 at 10, 100 and 1000Mbps:
vendor=0x13f0 device=0x1023 (rev 0x41)
subsystem vendor=0x1043 device=0x8180

MAC address registers access needed to be changed from 8-bit to 16-bit
because 8-bit does not work on IP1000A. 8-bit access is not even
allowed in the TC9020 datasheet (although it worked). 16-bit access
works on both.

Tested that it does not break D-Link DGE-550T (DL-2000 chip, probably
a rebranded TC9020):
vendor=0x1186 device=0x4000 (rev 0x0c)
subsystem vendor=0x1186 device=0x4000

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

This howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configure
ISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the impleme

drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

This howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configure
ISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the implementation
of PCI it became increasingly less and less relevant, to the point where
it has been well over a decade since I last updated it. And there is
no value in anyone else taking over updating it either.

However the references to it continue to spread as boiler plate text
from one Kconfig file into the next. We are not doing end users any
favours by pointing them at this old document, so lets kill it with
fire, once and for all, to hopefully stop any further spread.

No code is changed in this commit, just Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: Move MII out from under NET_CORE and hide it

All drivers that select MII also need to select NET_CORE because MII
depends on it. This is a bit ridiculous because NET_CORE is just a
menu option

net: Move MII out from under NET_CORE and hide it

All drivers that select MII also need to select NET_CORE because MII
depends on it. This is a bit ridiculous because NET_CORE is just a
menu option that doesn't enable any code by itself.

There is also no need for it to be a visible option, since its users
all select it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers

The parallel port is largely replaced by USB, and even in the
day where these drivers were current, the documented speed was
less than 100kB

drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers

The parallel port is largely replaced by USB, and even in the
day where these drivers were current, the documented speed was
less than 100kB/s. Let us not pretend that anyone cares about
these drivers anymore, or worse - pretend that anyone is using
them on a modern kernel.

As a side bonus, this is the end of legacy parallel port ethernet,
so we get to drop the whole chunk relating to that in the legacy
Space.c file containing the non-PCI unified probe dispatch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>

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MII: fix Kconfig dependencies for MII

MII Kconfig option is apart of the core networking drivers and
by default NET_CORE is enabled so drivers selecting MII will
have MII enabled as well. It was fo

MII: fix Kconfig dependencies for MII

MII Kconfig option is apart of the core networking drivers and
by default NET_CORE is enabled so drivers selecting MII will
have MII enabled as well. It was found using the randconfig
option during testing, MII would be selected but NET_CORE
could be disabled. This caused a dependency error.

Resolved the dependency by selecting NET_CORE when MII is
selected.

Reported-by: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig options

Based on finds for Stephen Rothwell, where current defconfig's
enable a ethernet driver and it is not compiled due to the newly
added NET_VENDO

drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig options

Based on finds for Stephen Rothwell, where current defconfig's
enable a ethernet driver and it is not compiled due to the newly
added NET_VENDOR_* component of Kconfig.

This patch enables all the "new" Kconfig options so that current
defconfig's will continue to compile the expected drivers. In
addition, by enabling all the new Kconfig options does not add
any un-expected options.

CC: Stephen Rothwll <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>

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de6*/dl2k/sundance: Move the D-Link drivers

Move the D-Link drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/ and
make the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

CC: Bjorn Ekwall <[email protected]>
CC: Donald

de6*/dl2k/sundance: Move the D-Link drivers

Move the D-Link drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/ and
make the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

CC: Bjorn Ekwall <[email protected]>
CC: Donald Becker <[email protected]>
CC: Edward Peng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>

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