Paul Gortmaker says:

====================
The Ethernet-HowTo was maintained for roughly 10 years, from 1993 to 2003.
Fortunately sane hardware probing and auto detection (via PCI and ISA/PnP)
largely made the document a relic of the past, hence it being abandoned
a decade ago.

However, there is one last useful thing that we can extract from the
effort made in maintaining that document.  We can use it to guide us
with respect to what rare, experimental and/or super ancient 10Mbit
ISA drivers don't make sense to maintain in-tree anymore.

Nobody will argue that ISA is obsolete.  Availability went away at about
the time Pentium3 motherboards moved from 500MHz Slot1/SECC processors
to the green 500MHz Socket 370 Pentium3 chips, at the turn of the century.

In theory, it is possible that someone could still be running one of these
12+ year old P3 machines and want 3.9+ bleeding edge kernels (but unlikely).
In light of the above (remote) possibility, we can defer the removal of some
ISA network drivers that were highly popular and well tested.  Typically
that means the stuff more from the mid to late '90s, some with ISA PnP
support, like the 3c509, the wd/SMC 8390 based stuff, PCnet/lance etc.

But a lot of other drivers, typically from the early 1990s were for rare
hardware, and experimental (to the point of requiring a cron job that would
do a test ping, and then ifconfig down/up and/or a rmmod/insmod!).  And
some of these drivers (znet, and lp486e to name two) are physically tied
to platforms with on motherboard ethernet -- of 486 machines that date
from the early 1990s and can only have single digit amounts of memory.

What I'd like to achieve here with this series, is to get rid of those old
drivers that are no longer being used.  In an earlier discussion where
I'd proposed deleting a single driver, Alan suggested we instead dump
all the historical stuff in one go, to make it "...immediately obvious
where the break point is..."[1] and that it was "perfectly reasonable it
(and a pile of other ISA cards) ought to be shown the door"[2].  So that
is the goal here - make a clear line in the sand where the really ancient
stuff finally gets kicked to the curb.

Two old parallel port drivers are considered for removal here as well,
since in early 386/486 ISA machines, the parallel port was typically found
with the UARTS on the multi-I/O ISA controller card.  These drivers also date
from the early 1990's; parallel ports are no longer found on modern boards,
and their performance was not even capable of 10% of 10Mbit bandwidth.

Allow me a preemptive justification against the inevitable comments from
well meaning bystanders who suggest "why not just leave all this alone?".
Dead drivers cost us all if they are left in tree.  If you think that
is false, then please first consider:

-every time you type "git status", you are checking to see if modifications
 have been made by you to all that dead code.

-every time you type "git grep <regex>" you are searching through files
 which contain that dead code that simply does not interest you.

-every time you build a "allyesconfig" and an "allmodconfig" (don't tell
 me you skip this step before submitting your changes to a maintainer),
 you waste CPU cycles building this dead code.

-every time there is a tree wide API change, or cleanup, or file relocation,
 we pay the cost of updating dead code, or moving dead code.

-daily regression tests (take linux-next as the most transparent
 example) spend time building (and possibly running) this dead code.

-hard working people who regularly run auditing tools looking for lurking
 bugs (sparse/coverity/smatch/coccinelle) are wasting time checking for,
 and fixing bugs in this dead code.

This last one is key.  Please take a look at the git history for the
files that are proposed for removal here.  Look at the git history for
any one of them ("git whatchanged --follow drivers/net/.../driver.c")
Mentally sort the changes into two bins -- (1) the robotic tree-wide
changes, and (2) the "look I found a real run-time bug while using this"
category.  You will see that category #2 is essentially empty.

Further to that, realize that drivers don't simply disappear.  We are
not operating in the binary-only distribution space like other OS.  All
these drivers remain in the git history forever.  If a person is an
enthusiast for extreme legacy hardware, they are probably already
customizing their kernel source and building it themselves to support
such systems.  Also keep in mind that they could still build the 3.8
kernel exactly as-is, and run it (or a 3.8.x stable variant of it) for
several more years if they were really determined to cling to these old
experimental ISA drivers for some reason.

In summary, I hope that folks can be pragmatic about this, and not
get swept up in nostalgia.  Ask yourself whether it is realistic to
expect a person would have a genuine use case where they would
need to build a 3.9+ modern kernel and install it on some legacy hardware
that has no option but to absolutely _require_ one of the drivers
that are deleted here.

The following series was created with --irreversible-delete for
ease of review (it skips showing the content of files that are
deleted); however the complete patches can be pulled as per below.
====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Since we have removed NCE (Neighbour Cache Entry) reference from
routing entries, the only refcnt holders of an NCE are its timer
(if running) and its owner table, in usual cases.  As a result,
neigh_periodic_work() purges NCEs over and over again even for
gateways.

It does not make sense to purge entries, if number of them is
very small, so keep them.  The minimum number of entries to keep
is specified by gc_thresh1.
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

mfc_mcastgrp and mfc_origin are __be32, thus we need to convert INADDR_ANY.
Because INADDR_ANY is 0, this patch just fix sparse warnings.
Reported-by: NFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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

 ------------------------
   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.
 ------------------------

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>

This is another one that makes sense to target for obsolescence, since
it (a)appeared pre-1995, and (b)was rather rare, and (c)did not
really have any statistically significant active linux user base.

Removing this ISA 10Mbit driver support is unlikely to be even noticed
by the user base of 3.9+ linux kernels, especially when the documentation
clearly indicates the vintage with this text:

	 "...designed to  work with all kernels > 1.1.33"
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

These are old ISA 10Mbit cards from the 1st 1/2 of the 1990s and
required manual jumper settings in order to configure them.  Here
we remove them on the premise that they are no longer used in any
modern 3.9+ kernels.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

This is an area I know all too well, after being author of several 8390
drivers, and maintainer of all 8390 drivers during a large part of their
active lifecycle.

To that end, I can say this with a reasonable degree of confidence.
The drivers deleted here represent the earliest (as in early 1990)
hardware and/or rare hardware.  The remaining hardware not deleted
here is the more modern/sane of the lot, with ISA-PnP and jumperless
"soft configuration" like the wd and smc cards had.

The original ne2000 driver (ne.c) gets a pass at this time since
AT/LANTIC based cards that could be both ne2000 or wd-like (with
shared memory) and with jumperless configuration were made in the
mid to late 1990's, and performed reasonably well for their era.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

This is another driver for relatively rare 10Mbit hardware that
originated in the early 1990's.  So we select it for removal at
this point in time as well.

Cc: Mika Kuoppala <miku@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

These Fujitsu MB86965 based ISA 10Mbit cards were another of the
relatively rare cards dating from the early 1990s that for one reason
or another didn't seem to get a lot of use in linux.  So we retire it
now with a reasonable degree of confidence that it won't impact anyone.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

These cards were only available in 8bit format, and in addition
they only had AUI and BNC(10-Base2) interfaces (i.e. no RJ-45).

In fact, they are so rare, that an internet search on these old
cards almost comes up empty, unless the "Micom interlan" name
is used.

This puts them in the equivalent domain as the 3c501, so there
should be no strong opposition to the driver removal, as nobody
is seriously using 3.9+ with 8 bit ISA hardware.

In doing so, the whole "ethernet/racal" category becomes empty,
so we clean up the Makefile/Kconfig and subdir appropriately.

Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: Jan-Pascal van Best <janpascal@vanbest.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Like the other drivers that were in the ISA i825xx family, the ni52
was rather rare, not widely used, and hence perhaps not as reliable
as the more mainstream ISA drivers that were heavily used.  Given
that, it is chosen for retirement at this time as well.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

This driver supported early to mid 1990's Zenith laptops, of the
2" thick variety.  The driver was already dead 10+ years ago, but
we see this in the source:

 ----------------
 /* 10/2002

 [...]

   Tested on a vintage Zenith Z-Note 433Lnp+. Probably broken on
   anything else. Testers (and detailed bug reports) are welcome :-).
 ----------------

To clarify, a 433 translates into a 486 at 33MHz, and a system with
a default of 4MB RAM.  I can't fault the noble effort to keep things
working a decade ago, but at this point in time, there is no valid
justification to continue carrying this driver along.

Note that there is no associated Space.c cleanup here since this
driver was using module_init to hook itself in.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

These old drivers should not be confused with the very common PCI
cards that are supported by e100.c -- these older 10Mbit ISA only
drivers were not as commonly used as some of the other ISA drivers,
simply due to hardware availability and pricing.

Given the rarity of the hardware, and the subsequent less extensive
use of the drivers, it makes sense to obsolete them at this point
in time, along with other rare/experimental ISA drivers.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

For those of us who were around in the early to mid 1990's, we
will remember that the i825xx ethernet support was not something
that was considered sufficiently vetted for 24/7 use.

Folks might be inclined to use *functional* ISA hardware on some
near expired P3 ISA machines for dedicated workhorse applications,
but the odds of using (and relying on) one of these old/experimental
drivers is essentially nil.  So lets remove them.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

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: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

It was amusing that linux was able to make use of this 1980's
technology on machines long past its intended lifespan, but
it probably should go now.

To set some context, the 3c501 was designed in the 1980's to be
used on 8088 PC-XT 8bit ISA machines.  It was built using a large
number of discrete TTL components and truly looks like a relic
of the ancient past before large scale integration was common.

But from a functional point of view, the real issue, as stated
in the (also obsolete) Ethernet-HowTo, is that "...the 3c501 can
only do one thing at a time -- while you are removing one packet
from the single-packet buffer it cannot receive another packet,
nor can it receive a packet while loading a transmit packet."

You know things are not good when the Kconfig help text suggests
you make a cron job doing a ping every minute.

Hardware that old and crippled is simply not going to be used by
anyone in a time where 10 year old 100Mbit PCI cards (that are
still functional) are largely give-away items.

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

This driver was specific to a "professional workstation" line
of products from around 1993 that used the i82596 ethernet chip
as an on-board ethernet solution.

With a 486 processor, and the premium top of the line model maxing
out at a clock speed of 50MHz, we can safely retire this support.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

The Apricot was a 486 PC with 4MB RAM, and an on-board ethernet
via an intel i82596 hard-wired to i/o 0x300.

Those who were using linux in the 1990's will recall that the
i82596 driver was not one of the more stable or widely used
drivers of its day.  Combine that with the extremely limited
resources of the platform, and it is truly time to expire the
support for this thing.

There are some old m68k targets who were also using this chip,
so rather than poll the m68k user base, we simply cut out the
x86/Apricot support here in this commit.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Cosmetic changes to drivers/isdn/gigaset/ev-layer.c and
drivers/isdn/gigaset/gigaset.h to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Rearrange the gigaset_freecs() function to make it more readable,
and adapt gigaset_initcs() accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Avoid forward declarations and remove a needless initialization.
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some firmware releases of Gigaset M105 do not accept AT+VLS=0 command
in DLE mode, so always leave DLE mode before sending the command.
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix up some of the readibility deterioration caused by last year's
ISDN whitespace coding style cleanup.
Note that the checkpatch complaints all apply to the state of the
source before this patch as well, and in many cases even more so.
Signed-off-by: NTilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Delete successive tests to the same location.  rc was previously tested and
not subsequently updated.  efx_phc_adjtime can return an error code, so the
call is updated so that is tested instead.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@s exists@
local idexpression y;
expression x,e;
@@

*if ( \(x == NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\|y != 0\) )
 { ... when forall
   return ...; }
... when != \(y = e\|y += e\|y -= e\|y |= e\|y &= e\|y++\|y--\|&y\)
    when != \(XT_GETPAGE(...,y)\|WMI_CMD_BUF(...)\)
*if ( \(x == NULL\|IS_ERR(x)\|y != 0\) )
 { ... when forall
   return ...; }
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 2152caea ("ipv6: Do not depend on rt->n in rt6_probe().")
introduce a bug to try to update "updated" time in neighbour
structure.
Update the "updated" time only if neighbour is available.

Bug was found by Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Florian Fainelli says:

====================
These two patches are non-critical bugfixes based on net-next which I
stumbled upon while working on Device Tree bindings for DSA (will comme
as a separate patch later).

====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch changes dsa_switch_setup() to ensure that at least one valid
valid port name is specified and will bail out with an error in case we
walked the maximum number of port with a valid port name found.
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The slave MII bus registered by the DSA code is using the parent MII bus
as part of its name (ds->master_mii_bus_id), in case the parent MII bus
name is already 16 characters long (such as d0072004.mdio-mi) we will
get the following WARN_ON in dsa_switch_setup() when calling
mdiobus_register():

[   79.088782] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   79.093448] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0x80/0xa0()
[   79.099831] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
'/class/mdio_bus/d0072004.mdio-mi'

This is a genuine warning, because the DSA slave MII bus will also be
named d0072004.mdio-mi, and since MII_BUS_ID_SIZE is 17 characters long
(with null-terminator) the following will truncate the slave MII bus id:

snprintf(ds->slave_mii_bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "%s-%d:%.2x",
                        ds->master_mii_bus->id, ds->pd->sw_addr);

Fix this by using dsa-<switch index->:<sw_add> which is guaranteed to be
unique.
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

__skb_tx_hash() and __skb_get_rxhash() are all for calculating hash
value based by some fields in skb, mostly used for selecting queues
by device drivers.

Meanwhile, net/core/dev.c is bloating.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Amos Kong says:

====================
Currenly mac is programmed byte by byte. This means that we
have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.

Third patch introduced a new vq control command to set mac
address, it's atomic.

V2: check return of sending command, delay eth_mac_addr()
V3: restore software address when fail to set hardware address
V4: split eth_mac_addr, fix error handle
V5: rebase patches to net-next tree
====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Currently we write MAC address to pci config space byte by byte,
this means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.
This patch introduced a new control command to set MAC address,
it's atomic.

VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is a new feature bit for compatibility.
Signed-off-by: NAmos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac
address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow
callers to implement error handling nicely.

This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part,
then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do
the real commit if hardware address is set successfully.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAmos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We want to send vq command to set mac address in
virtnet_set_mac_address(), so do this function moving.
Fixed a little issue of coding style.
Signed-off-by: NAmos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Nicolas Dichtel says:

====================
The goal of this serie is to add the support of proxy multicast, ie being able
to build a static multicast tree. In other words, it adds the support of (*,G)
mf[6]c entries.

v2: use INADDR_ANY instead of 0 for IPv4 addresses
====================
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch add the support of proxy multicast, ie being able to build a static
multicast tree. It adds the support of (*,*) and (*,G) entries.

The user should define an (*,*) entry which is not used for real forwarding.
This entry defines the upstream in iif and contains all interfaces from the
static tree in its oifs. It will be used to forward packet upstream when they
come from an interface belonging to the static tree.
Hence, the user should define (*,G) entries to build its static tree. Note that
upstream interface must be part of oifs: packets are sent to all oifs
interfaces except the input interface. This ensures to always join the whole
static tree, even if the packet is not coming from the upstream interface.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: NDavid L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This will ease further addition of new MRT[6]_* values and avoid to update
in6.h each time.
Note that we reduce the maximum value from 210 to 209, but 210 does not match
any known value in ip[6]_mroute_setsockopt().
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: NDavid L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>