The last update to the Ethernet HowTo (over 10 years ago) listed this:

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   SEEQ 8005

   Status: Obsolete, Driver Name: seeq8005

   There is little information about the card included in the driver,
   and hence little information to be put here. If you have a question,
   you are probably best trying to e-mail the driver author as listed
   in the source.

   It was marked obsolete as of the 2.4 series kernels.
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If it was obsolete over a decade ago, the situation can not have
improved with the passage of time, so let us act on that.  Even with
today's improved search engines, I was unable to locate any real
meaningful information on the ISA implementation of this rare chip.

There are ARM and SGI variants of the driver in tree, but they do
not depend on the original x86 driver source or header file.  We
leave those non-x86 drivers to be deleted by the arch maintainers
when they decide to expire those legacy platforms as a whole.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As result the __dev*
markings will be going away.

Remove use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata, __devinitconst,
and __devexit.
Signed-off-by: NBill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

If ndo_validate_addr is set to the generic eth_validate_addr
function there is no point in calling is_valid_ether_addr
from driver ndo_open if ndo_open is not used elsewhere in
the driver.

With this change is_valid_ether_addr will be called from the
generic eth_validate_addr function. So there should be no change
in the actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: NJoachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

ARM is moving to stricter checks on readl/write functions,
so we need to use the correct types everywhere.

Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

It doesn't seem this spinlock was properly initialized.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

the driver sees wether the dev_seeq pointer is having a error that can be
read by using the PTR_ERR, and returns it at error case, other wise 0 at
success case.

the PTR_RET does the same thing, and use PTR_RET instead of redoing the
code of PTR_RET
Signed-off-by: NDevendra Naga <develkernel412222@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Replaced deprecating dev_alloc_skb with netdev_alloc_skb in drivers/net/ethernet
  - Removed extra skb->dev = dev after netdev_alloc_skb
Signed-off-by: NPradeep A Dalvi <netdev@pradeepdalvi.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

alloc_etherdev has a generic OOM/unable to alloc message.
Remove the duplicative messages after alloc_etherdev calls.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch converts the drivers in drivers/net/ethernet/* to use the
module_platform_driver() macro which makes the code smaller and a bit
simpler.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn@belden.com>
Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: NAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NWan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The SEEQ drivers should depend on HAS_IOMEM to prevent compile breakage
on !HAS_IOMEM architectures:

drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/seeq8005.c: In function 'seeq8005_probe1':
drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/seeq8005.c:179:2: error:
  implicit declaration of function 'inw' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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 <sfc@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

replace it by ndo_set_rx_mode
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Move the drivers that use SEEQ chipset into drivers/net/ethernet/seeq
and make the necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes.

CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
CC: Hamish Coleman <hamish@zot.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>