eth: remove neterion/vxge
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 5 Jul 2022 22:22:28 +0000 (15:22 -0700)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 5 Jul 2022 22:26:31 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
commitf05643a0f60bf67c09a5276b81258b845b0c73b4
tree6c5f94889b612e274a5ad652d4a6a4c7293642a5
parent3359619a6ea5bb53c5b259c83791a1e14c5aa125
eth: remove neterion/vxge

The 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 is
perfect the chances are nobody is using this hardware.

Because of the size of this driver there is a nontrivial maintenance
cost to keeping this code around, in the last 2 years we're averaging
more than 1 change a month. Some of which require nontrivial review
effort, 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 to
establish a clear path for shedding dead code. It will be hard
to unless we have some experience trying to delete stuff.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220701044234.706229-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
16 files changed:
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/index.rst
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/neterion/vxge.rst [deleted file]
MAINTAINERS
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Kconfig
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/Makefile
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.h [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-ethtool.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-ethtool.h [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.h [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-reg.h [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-traffic.h [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-version.h [deleted file]