With all isdn4linux hardware drivers gone, this is only a wrapper around
CAPI to support old user space. However, from looking at the mailing
list, it seems that the last time anyone asked about it was in 2014,
when the upgrade from a linux-2.4 installation failed, and mISDN was
suggested as a replacement.
The largest public ISDN network (Deutsche Telekom) was supposed to be
shut down 2018, which must have drastically reduced the number of legacy
installations.
When we last discussed removing i4l in 2016, Karsten Keil suggested
revisiting this in 2018. I guess this is overdue.
Link: http://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2014-October/006165.html
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8484861/#17900371
Link: https://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2019-April/thread.html
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
With the decline of ISDN, this seems to have become almost completely
obsolete, and even in the past years before that, almost all remaining
users appear to have used mISDN instead.
Birger Harzenetter noted that he is still using i4l/hisax to take
advantage of the 'divert' driver for call diversion, but otherwise uses
mISDN on the same hardware. This is a rare edge case as far as I
can tell, but we are still breaking an actively used work flow
(see https://xkcd.com/1172/).
We debated moving i4l/hisax to staging as an intermediate step, but as
he is not likely to change the setup, and that would just delay breaking
this use case. The alternatives here are to stay on stable kernels
< 5.2, to create an external driver repository for isdn4linux, or to
add divert functionality to mISDN.
Cc: Birger Harzenetter <WIMPy@yeti.dk>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
isdn4linux is getting removed, and the gigaset driver can still
use the CAPI support, so this can all go away.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
and switch to https where possible.
All links have been eyeballed to verify that the domains have
not changed, etc.
Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware,
and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them
on modern kernels, if at all.
All three drivers apparently are for hardware that predates PCI
being the common connector, as they are ISA-only and active
PCI ISDN cards were widely available in the 1990s.
Looking through the git logs, it I cannot find any indication of a
patch to any of these drivers that has been tested on real hardware,
only cleanups or global API changes.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.
There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/,
since the directory has changed.
Also update the files which have changed their filename
in the meantime accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
[jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The CAPI variant of the Gigaset drivers can, in combination with
capidrv, now fully replace the legacy ISDN4Linux variant. All
reported problems have been fixed. So remove the EXPERIMENTAL tag
from the Kconfig option selecting it, and adapt the documentation
accordingly to encourage users to switch to it.
Impact: documentation/status update, no functional change
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a paragraph to the driver documentation describing how to make
internal and external calls.
Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mention that the CAPI controller methods load_firmware() and
reset_ctr() are asynchronous, and should signal completion.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Clarify the non-support by isdnlog, and propose a better standard
debug mask.
Impact: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Convert code away from ->read_proc/->write_proc interfaces. Switch to
proc_create()/proc_create_data() which make addition of proc entries
reliable wrt NULL ->proc_fops, NULL ->data and so on.
Problem with ->read_proc et al is described here commit
786d7e1612 "Fix rmmod/read/write races in
/proc entries"
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: CONFIG_PROC_FS=n build fix]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Various additions and improvements to the Gigaset driver's README
file, and added comments to its userspace visible include file.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a Kernel CAPI interface to the Gigaset driver.
Impact: optional new functionality
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Note that send_message() may be called in interrupt context.
- Describe the storage of CAPI messages and payload data in SKBs.
- Add more details to the description of the _cmsg structure.
- Describe kernelcapi debugging output.
Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove duplicates, a stray merge conflict marker, and an entry for a file
which doesn't exist, and move one entry to its correct alphabetical place.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Clarify calling context and return codes of callback methods, and
add a description of the _cmsg structure and helper functions.
Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change the name of the Kernel CAPI exported function capi_ctr_reseted()
to something representing its purpose better.
Impact: renaming, no functional change
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Drop the kernel config option GIGASET_UNDOCREQ, permanently
activating the code it controlled, as there have been no reports
of problems caused by its activation but many problems caused by
it being disabled.
Also fix a few bad comments while we're at it.
Impact: cleanup
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mention handling of unregisteted DECT wireless datasets in README.gigaset.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move the entry about CAPI 2.0 to the beginning and add a URL.
Incorporate changes suggested by Randy Dunlap, thanks for proofreading.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
isdn: document Kernel CAPI driver interface
Create a file Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI describing the
interface between the kernel CAPI subsystem and ISDN device drivers,
analogous to the existing Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE for the old
isdn4linux subsystem. Also add kerneldoc comments to the exported
functions in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c.
Impact: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After the merging of mISDN, state which files refer only to the
old isdn4linux subsystem. Also add a few missing files.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
After the merging of mISDN, state which files refer only to the
old isdn4linux subsystem. Also add a few missing files and sort
alphabetically.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update, correct and clarify instructions for loading the driver
and for setting the UNDOCREQ kernel configuration option.
Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mISDN is a new modular ISDN driver, in the long term it should replace
the old I4L driver architecture for passiv ISDN cards.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
* Convert files to UTF-8.
* Also correct some people's names
(one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
7bit.)
* Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)
* Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8.
Adrian Bunk:
small additional fixes
Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch adds the line discipline based driver for the Gigaset M101
wireless RS232 adapter. It also improves the documentation a bit.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.
Examples:
"and and" --> "and"
"in in" --> "in"
"the the" --> "the"
"the the" --> "to the"
...
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Using the class device pointer returned by tty_register_device() with
part 1 of the patch, attach the Gigaset drivers' "cidmode" sysfs entry
to its tty class device, where it can be found more easily by users
who do not know nor care which USB port the device is attached to.
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Add a README file for the Siemens Gigaset drivers to the Documentation/isdn
directory.
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Arnd Bergmann