eth: remove neterion/vxge

The last meaningful change to this driver was made by Jon in 2011.
As much as we'd like to believe that this is because the code is
perfect the chances are nobody is using

eth: remove neterion/vxge

The last meaningful change to this driver was made by Jon in 2011.
As much as we'd like to believe that this is because the code is
perfect the chances are nobody is using this hardware.

Because of the size of this driver there is a nontrivial maintenance
cost to keeping this code around, in the last 2 years we're averaging
more than 1 change a month. Some of which require nontrivial review
effort, see commit 877fe9d49b74 ("Revert "drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge:
Fix a use-after-free bug in vxge-main.c"") for example.

Let's try to remove this driver. In general, IMHO, we need to
establish a clear path for shedding dead code. It will be hard
to unless we have some experience trying to delete stuff.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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docs: networking: reorganize driver documentation again

Organize driver documentation by device type. Most documents
have fairly verbose yet uninformative names, so let users
first select a well def

docs: networking: reorganize driver documentation again

Organize driver documentation by device type. Most documents
have fairly verbose yet uninformative names, so let users
first select a well defined device type, and then search for
a particular driver.

While at it rename the section from Vendor drivers to
Hardware drivers. This seems more accurate, besides people
sometimes refer to out-of-tree drivers as vendor drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <[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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docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/vxge.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output;
- mark c

docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/vxge.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/s2io.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output;
- mark code blocks and literals as su

docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/s2io.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[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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net: documentation: build a directory structure for drivers

Documentation/networking/ is full of cryptically named files with
driver documentation. This makes finding interesting information
at a g

net: documentation: build a directory structure for drivers

Documentation/networking/ is full of cryptically named files with
driver documentation. This makes finding interesting information
at a glance really hard. Move all those files into a directory
called device_drivers (since not all drivers are for device) and
fix up references.

RFC v0.1 -> RFC v1:
- also add .txt suffix to the files which are missing it (Quentin)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Henrik Austad <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: change Exar/Neterion menu items to be alphabetical

Neterion was standalone for several years, then acquired by Exar and
shutdown in 11 months without ever making any new Exar branded adapters.

net: change Exar/Neterion menu items to be alphabetical

Neterion was standalone for several years, then acquired by Exar and
shutdown in 11 months without ever making any new Exar branded adapters.
Users would probably think of them as Neterion and not Exar (as there
have been no follow-on adapters and the vast majority ever sold were
under the Neterion name).

6c541b4595a2 ("net: ethernet: Sort Kconfig sourcing alphabetically")
sorted Kconfig sourcing based on directory names, but in a couple cases,
the menu item text is quite different from the directory name and is not
sorted correctly:

drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig => "Exar devices"

To address that and clear up any confusion about the name, "Exar" was
changed to "Neterion (Exar)" and the relevant entries in the Makefile
and Kconfig were reordered to match the alphabetical organization.

Inspired-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <[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: Remove bogus dependencies on INET

Various drivers depend on INET because they used to select INET_LRO,
but they have all been converted to use GRO which has no such
dependency.

Signed-off-by:

net: Remove bogus dependencies on INET

Various drivers depend on INET because they used to select INET_LRO,
but they have all been converted to use GRO which has no such
dependency.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[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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s2io/vxge: Move the Exar drivers

Move the Exar drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/ and make the
necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

CC: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff

s2io/vxge: Move the Exar drivers

Move the Exar drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/ and make the
necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

CC: Jon Mason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>

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