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| author | Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> | 2020-11-14 07:09:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2020-11-17 13:33:29 -0800 |
| commit | f73659192b0bdf7bad826587b3530cef43cc048d (patch) | |
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net: wan: Delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers
The DLCI driver (dlci.c) implements the Frame Relay protocol. However,
we already have another newer and better implementation of Frame Relay
provided by the HDLC_FR driver (hdlc_fr.c).
The DLCI driver's implementation of Frame Relay is used by only one
hardware driver in the kernel - the SDLA driver (sdla.c).
The SDLA driver provides Frame Relay support for the Sangoma S50x devices.
However, the vendor provides their own driver (along with their own
multi-WAN-protocol implementations including Frame Relay), called WANPIPE.
I believe most users of the hardware would use the vendor-provided WANPIPE
driver instead.
(The WANPIPE driver was even once in the kernel, but was deleted in
commit 8db60bcf3021 ("[WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma
drivers.") because the vendor no longer updated the in-kernel WANPIPE
driver.)
Cc: Mike McLagan <mike.mclagan@linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201114150921.685594-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -2499,15 +2499,6 @@ W: http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/ D: RCU and variants D: rcutorture module -N: Mike McLagan -E: mike.mclagan@linux.org -W: http://www.invlogic.com/~mmclagan -D: DLCI/FRAD drivers for Sangoma SDLAs -S: Innovative Logic Corp -S: Post Office Box 1068 -S: Laurel, Maryland 20732 -S: USA - N: Bradley McLean E: brad@bradpc.gaylord.com D: Device driver hacker |