kernel/linux.git/drivers/staging/Kconfig, branch v6.12.80

staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext

2025-12-06T21:25:02+00:00

commit 41e883c137ebe6eec042658ef750cbb0529f6ca8 upstream. This driver is in the staging area since 2010. The following reasons lead to the removal: - This driver generates maintenance workload for itself and for API wext - A MAC80211 driver was available in 2016 time frame; This driver does not compile anymore but would be a better starting point than the current driver. Here the note from the TODO file: A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su - no progress changing to mac80211 - Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is not supported. Find further discussions in the Link below. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@gmail.com/T/#t Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Tested-by: Dominik Karol Piątkowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [groeck: Resolved conflicts] Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20251204021604.GA843400@ax162/T/#t Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: ks7010: Remove unused driver

2024-07-30T07:21:00+00:00

Wolfram contributed this driver in 2016. He is not using it anymore and confirmed it to be removed. It is hard to find hardware around the globe. When it is offered it is expensive and performance is low. Remove unused driver. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/igi27iwrzg3ovgj3sym4gsi45timpkt4vkl5ss5dbftdzat6p4@ctxcjocvunpt/ Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240728052552.GA8748@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: pi433: Remove unused driver

2024-05-04T16:42:43+00:00

Marcus started a project in 2016 to bring the pi433 alive. One project was funded successfully but the second not. So only a few pi433 got sold to early adaptors during this time that ended late 2017. There is a simple user space program available for a demo with the pi433 but that does not use this driver. The driver is unused since 2018. No description or user space application to use it can be found. To bring it alive the device tree needs to be adjusted manually. The last patch reviewed by Marcus was in June 2018, last patch tested was in July 2017. No response since 27. March 2024 regarding the removal of the driver. Remove unused driver because of the above named reasons. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/c4c5ab38-8c67-4c21-86bc-f4f3c06be358@gmail.com/ Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1292669042/pi433-a-radio-module-funkmodul-for-raspberry-pi Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1292669042/smarthome-pi/comments Link: https://www.pi433.de/en.html Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Cc: Marcus Wolf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240421195717.GA10943@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: wlan-ng: Remove broken driver prism2_usb

2024-03-26T16:04:49+00:00

Driver has a throughput of 200 to 800kByte/s in non encrypted transmission. All encrypted modes are not working. WLAN without WPA2 is useless these days. Driver is unused since April 2021 as a bug broke the function. Find fix for bug in link below. Remove driver because of its low performance and unusability. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/5fa18cb8-3c51-4ac6-811e-63ae74f82f17@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326084742.GA16228@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: Remove board staging code

2024-01-24T18:20:27+00:00

There are no more users of the board staging code. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Wolfram Sang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eec1bfb2878237888a8c3bc866d18dc53900739f.1705932585.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: emxx_udc: Remove EMMA Mobile USB Gadget driver

2024-01-24T18:20:26+00:00

No one stepped up to complete the EMMA Mobile USB Gadget driver, bring it up to non-staging standards, and convert it to device tree. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Wolfram Sang Acked-by: Niklas Söderlund Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c7bc2c95458f9710e043cbedee4270dd41fcae29.1705932585.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: qlge: Retire the driver

2023-10-21T09:52:54+00:00

No significant improvements have been done to this driver since commit a7c3ddf29a78 ("staging: qlge: clean up debugging code in the QL_ALL_DUMP ifdef land") in January 2021. The driver should not stay in staging forever. Since it has been abandoned by the vendor and no one has stepped up to maintain it, delete it. If some users manifest themselves, the driver will be restored to drivers/net/ as suggested in the linked message. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org/ Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Manish Chopra Cc: Coiby Xu Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231020124457.312449-3-benjamin.poirier@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: rtl8192u: Remove broken driver

2023-10-15T16:20:15+00:00

Tests on rtl8192u hardware have shown that this driver is broken since 2016. Remove broken driver. Find fix for two bugs in second link. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/db98d9ac-7650-4a72-8eb9-4def1f17ea0d@app.fastmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1697089416.git.philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231014211051.GA29518@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: r8188eu: delete driver

2023-03-09T09:06:28+00:00

Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can be deleted. Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of the overall size, making this a much better overall solution. Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the real driver was implemented properly. Reported-by: Hans de Goede Cc: Phillip Potter Cc: Pavel Skripkin Acked-by: Larry Finger Acked-by: Hans de Goede Acked-by: Martin Kaiser Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann # Edimax N150 Acked-by: Michael Straube Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux

2022-10-08T17:06:48+00:00

Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd: "We have some late breaking reports that a patch series to rework clk rate range support broke boot on some devices, so I've left that branch out of this. Hopefully we can get to that next week, or punt on it and let it bake another cycle. That means we don't really have any changes to the core framework this time around besides a few typo fixes. Instead this is all clk driver updates and fixes. The usual suspects are here (again), with Qualcomm dominating the diffstat. We look to have gained support for quite a few new Qualcomm SoCs and Dmitry worked on updating many of the existing Qualcomm drivers to use clk_parent_data. After that we have MediaTek drivers getting some much needed updates, in particular to support GPU DVFS. There are also quite a few Samsung clk driver patches, but that's mostly because there was a maintainer change and so last release we missed some of those patches. Overall things look normal, but I'm slowly reviewing core framework code nowadays and that shows given the rate range patches had to be yanked last minute. Let's hope this situation changes soon. New Drivers: - Support for Renesas VersaClock7 clock generator family - Add Spreadtrum UMS512 SoC clk support - New clock drivers for MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 - Display clks for Qualcomm SM6115, SM8450 - GPU clks for Qualcomm SC8280XP - Qualcomm MSM8909 and SM6375 global and SMD RPM clk drivers Deleted Drivers: - Remove DaVinci DM644x and DM646x clk driver support Updates: - Convert Baikal-T1 CCU driver to platform driver - Split reset support out of primary Baikal-T1 CCU driver - Add some missing clks required for RPiVid Video Decoder on RaspberryPi - Mark PLLC critical on bcm2835 - More devm helpers for fixed rate registration - Various PXA168 clk driver fixes - Add resets for MediaTek MT8195 PCIe and USB - Miscellaneous of_node_put() fixes - Nuke dt-bindings/clk path (again) by moving headers to dt-bindings/clock - Convert gpio-clk-gate binding to YAML - Various fixes to AMD/Xilinx Zynqmp clk driver - Graduate AMD/Xilinx "clocking wizard" driver from staging - Add missing DPI1_HDMI clock in MT8195 VDOSYS1 - Clock driver changes to support GPU DVFS on MT8183, MT8192, MT8195 - Fix GPU clock topology on MT8195 - Propogate rate changes from GPU clock gate up the tree - Clock mux notifiers for GPU-related PLLs - Conversion of more "simple" drivers to mtk_clk_simple_probe() - Hook up mtk_clk_simple_remove() for "simple" MT8192 clock drivers - Fixes to previous |struct clk| to |struct clk_hw| conversion on MediaTek - Shrink MT8192 clock driver by deduplicating clock parent lists - Change order between 'sim_enet_root_clk' and 'enet_qos_root_clk' clocks for i.MX8MP - Drop unnecessary newline in i.MX8MM dt-bindings - Add more MU1 and SAI clocks dt-bindings Ids - Introduce slice busy bit check for i.MX93 composite clock - Introduce white list bit check for i.MX93 composite clock - Add new i.MX93 clock gate - Add MU1 and MU2 clocks to i.MX93 clock provider - Add SAI IPG clocks to i.MX93 clock provider - add generic clocks for U(S)ART available on SAMA5D2 SoCs - reset controller support for Polarfire clocks - .round_rate and .set rate support for clk-mpfs - code cleanup for clk-mpfs - PLL support for PolarFire SoC's Clock Conditioning Circuitry - Add watchdog, I2C, pin control/GPIO, and Ethernet clocks on R-Car V4H - Add SDHI, Timer (CMT/TMU), and SPI (MSIOF) clocks on R-Car S4-8 - Add I2C clocks and resets on RZ/V2M - Document clock support for the RZ/Five SoC - mux-variant clock using the table variant to select parents - clock controller for the rv1126 soc - conversion of rk3128 to yaml and relicensing of the yaml bindings to gpl2+MIT (following dt-binding guildelines) - Exynos7885: add FSYS, TREX and MFC clock controllers - Exynos850: add IS and AUD (audio) clock controllers with bindings - ExynosAutov9: add FSYS clock controllers with bindings - ExynosAutov9: correct clock IDs in bindings of Peric 0 and 1 clock controllers, due to duplicated entries. This is an acceptable ABI break: recently developed/added platform so without legacies, acked by known users/developers - ExynosAutov9: add few missing Peric 0/1 gates - ExynosAutov9: correct register offsets of few Peric 0/1 clocks - Minor code improvements (use of_device_get_match_data() helper, code style) - Add Krzysztof Kozlowski as co-maintainer of Samsung SoC clocks, as he already maintainers that architecture/platform - Keep Qualcomm GDSCs enabled when PWRSTS_RET flag is there, solving retention issues during suspend of USB on Qualcomm sc7180/sc7280 and SC8280XP - Qualcomm SM6115 and QCM2260 are moved to reuse PLL configuration - Qualcomm SDM660 SDCC1 moved to floor clk ops - Support for the APCS PLLs for Qualcomm IPQ8064, IPQ8074 and IPQ6018 was added/fixed - The Qualcomm MSM8996 CPU clocks are updated with support for ACD - Support for Qualcomm SDM670 GCC and RPMh clks was added - Transition to parent_data, parent_hws and use of ARRAY_SIZE() for num_parents was done for many Qualcomm SoCs - Support for per-reset defined delay on Qualcomm was introduced" * tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (283 commits) clk: qcom: gcc-sm6375: Ensure unsigned long type clk: qcom: gcc-sm6375: Remove unused variables clk: qcom: kpss-xcc: convert to parent data API clk: introduce (devm_)hw_register_mux_parent_data_table API clk: allow building lan966x as a module clk: clk-xgene: simplify if-if to if-else clk: ast2600: BCLK comes from EPLL clk: clocking-wizard: Depend on HAS_IOMEM clk: clocking-wizard: Use dev_err_probe() helper clk: nxp: fix typo in comment clk: pxa: add a check for the return value of kzalloc() clk: vc5: Add support for IDT/Renesas VersaClock 5P49V6975 dt-bindings: clock: vc5: Add 5P49V6975 clk: mvebu: armada-37xx-tbg: Remove the unneeded result variable clk: ti: dra7-atl: Fix reference leak in of_dra7_atl_clk_probe clk: Renesas versaclock7 ccf device driver dt-bindings: Renesas versaclock7 device tree bindings clk: ti: Balance of_node_get() calls for of_find_node_by_name() clk: imx: scu: fix memleak on platform_device_add() fails clk: vc5: Use regmap_{set,clear}_bits() where appropriate ...