Changes in Kconfig

f05643a0 - eth: remove neterion/vxge

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 22:22:28 +0000

eth: remove neterion/vxgeThe 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 isperfect the chances are nobody is using this hardware.Because of the size of this driver there is a nontrivial maintenancecost to keeping this code around, in the last 2 years we're averagingmore than 1 change a month. Some of which require nontrivial revieweffort, 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 toestablish a clear path for shedding dead code. It will be hardto unless we have some experience trying to delete stuff.Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701044234.706229-1-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

132db935 - docs: networking: reorganize driver documentation again

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:27:24 +0000

docs: networking: reorganize driver documentation againOrganize driver documentation by device type. Most documentshave fairly verbose yet uninformative names, so let usersfirst select a well defined device type, and then search fora particular driver.While at it rename the section from Vendor drivers toHardware drivers. This seems more accurate, besides peoplesometimes refer to out-of-tree drivers as vendor drivers.Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Acked-by: Shannon Nelson Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

a7f7f624 - treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:50:22 +0000

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been graduallydecreasing, 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 thefollowing commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

f10727d3 - docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/vxge.txt to ReST

Fri, 01 May 2020 14:44:50 +0000

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

7762f5c5 - docs: networking: device drivers: convert neterion/s2io.txt to ReST

Fri, 01 May 2020 14:44:49 +0000

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

ec8f24b7 - treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Sun, 19 May 2019 12:07:45 +0000

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/KconfigAdd SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which: - Have no license information of any formThese files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDXlicense identifier is: GPL-2.0-onlySigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

b255e500 - net: documentation: build a directory structure for drivers

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:43:28 +0000

net: documentation: build a directory structure for driversDocumentation/networking/ is full of cryptically named files withdriver documentation. This makes finding interesting informationat a glance really hard. Move all those files into a directorycalled device_drivers (since not all drivers are for device) andfix up references.RFC v0.1 -> RFC v1: - also add .txt suffix to the files which are missing it (Quentin)Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet Acked-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Henrik Austad Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

d39db3b4 - net: change Exar/Neterion menu items to be alphabetical

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:56:19 +0000

net: change Exar/Neterion menu items to be alphabeticalNeterion was standalone for several years, then acquired by Exar andshutdown in 11 months without ever making any new Exar branded adapters.Users would probably think of them as Neterion and not Exar (as therehave been no follow-on adapters and the vast majority ever sold wereunder 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 notsorted correctly: drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig => "Exar devices"To address that and clear up any confusion about the name, "Exar" waschanged to "Neterion (Exar)" and the relevant entries in the Makefileand Kconfig were reordered to match the alphabetical organization.Inspired-by: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Jon Mason Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

138b15ed - drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 20:28:02 +0000

drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTOThis howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configureISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the implementationof PCI it became increasingly less and less relevant, to the point whereit has been well over a decade since I last updated it. And there isno value in anyone else taking over updating it either.However the references to it continue to spread as boiler plate textfrom one Kconfig file into the next. We are not doing end users anyfavours by pointing them at this old document, so lets kill it withfire, 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

ff33c0e1 - net: Remove bogus dependencies on INET

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:47:39 +0000

net: Remove bogus dependencies on INETVarious drivers depend on INET because they used to select INET_LRO,but they have all been converted to use GRO which has no suchdependency.Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

88f07484 - drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig options

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:29:52 +0000

drivers/net/ethernet/*: Enabled vendor Kconfig optionsBased on finds for Stephen Rothwell, where current defconfig'senable a ethernet driver and it is not compiled due to the newlyadded NET_VENDOR_* component of Kconfig.This patch enables all the "new" Kconfig options so that currentdefconfig's will continue to compile the expected drivers. Inaddition, by enabling all the new Kconfig options does not addany un-expected options.CC: Stephen Rothwll Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig

86387e1a - s2io/vxge: Move the Exar drivers

Fri, 13 May 2011 09:51:01 +0000

s2io/vxge: Move the Exar driversMove the Exar drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/ and make thenecessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.CC: Jon Mason Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig