kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/Makefile, branch v6.6.132

char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers

2023-03-09T16:30:27+00:00

These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers completely. Let's start with these char broken one. Note that I also removed a UAPI header: include/uapi/linux/cm4000_cs.h. I found only coccinelle tests mentioning some ioctl constants from that file. But they are not actually used. Anyway, should someone complain, we may reintroduce the header (or its parts). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f41c2765-80e0-48bc-b1e4-8cfd3230fd4a@www.fastmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) Cc: "Hyunwoo Kim" Cc: Harald Welte Cc: Lubomir Rintel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222092302.6348-2-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: remove VR41XX related char driver

2022-07-28T14:12:33+00:00

Commit d3164e2f3b0a ("MIPS: Remove VR41xx support") removed support for MIPS VR41xx platform, so remove exclusive drivers for this platform, too. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220716130802.11660-1-tsbogend@alpha.franken.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

remove the raw driver

2021-06-04T13:35:03+00:00

The raw driver used to provide direct unbuffered access to block devices before O_DIRECT was invented. It has been obsolete for more than a decade. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.64.0703180754060.6605@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6/ Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210531072526.97052-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: xillybus: Fix condition for invoking the xillybus/ subdirectory

2021-06-03T12:10:03+00:00

As Xillybus' configuration symbol hierarchy has been reorganized recently, the correct condition for compiling the xillybus/ subdirectory is now CONFIG_XILLYBUS_CLASS, and not CONFIG_XILLYBUS. Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210528092242.51104-1-eli.billauer@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtc/alpha: remove legacy rtc driver

2020-03-19T06:41:02+00:00

The old drivers/char/rtc.c driver was originally the implementation for x86 PCs but got subsequently replaced by the rtc class driver on all architectures except alpha. Move alpha over to the portable driver and remove the old one for good. The CONFIG_JS_RTC option was only ever used on SPARC32 but has not been available for many years, this was used to build the same rtc driver with a different module name. Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-2-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver

2020-03-19T06:41:02+00:00

There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c. Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so in a more portable way. Move everything over to that one and remove the old one. Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: remove the SGI tiocx/mbcs driver

2019-08-16T18:33:56+00:00

The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that depends on the SN2 support. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

char: remove the SGI snsc driver

2019-08-16T18:33:56+00:00

char/generic_nvram: Remove as unused

2019-01-22T09:21:45+00:00

Signed-off-by: Finn Thain Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driver

2018-06-05T18:24:55+00:00

SPARC M7 and newer processors utilize ADI to version and protect memory. This driver is capable of reading/writing ADI/MCD versions from privileged user space processes. Addresses in the adi file are mapped linearly to physical memory at a ratio of 1:adi_blksz. Thus, a read (or write) of offset K in the file operates upon the ADI version at physical address K * adi_blksz. The version information is encoded as one version per byte. Intended consumers are makedumpfile and crash. Signed-off-by: Tom Hromatka Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller