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authorBastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>2019-09-23 18:18:43 +0200
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USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver
commit 015664d15270a112c2371d812f03f7c579b35a73 upstream. The Rio500 kernel driver has not been used by Rio500 owners since 2001 not long after the rio500 project added support for a user-space USB stack through the very first versions of usbdevfs and then libusb. Support for the kernel driver was removed from the upstream utilities in 2008: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/rio500/commit/943f624ab721eb8281c287650fcc9e2026f6f5db Cc: Cesar Miquel <miquel@df.uba.ar> Signed-off-by: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6251c17584d220472ce882a3d9c199c401a51a71.camel@hadess.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Bruce Tenison
-Portions Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 David Nelson
-Thanks to David Nelson for guidance and the usage of the scanner.txt
-and scanner.c files to model our driver and this informative file.
-
-Mar. 2, 2000
-
-CHANGES
-
-- Initial Revision
-
-
-OVERVIEW
-
-This README will address issues regarding how to configure the kernel
-to access a RIO 500 mp3 player.
-Before I explain how to use this to access the Rio500 please be warned:
-
-W A R N I N G:
---------------
-
-Please note that this software is still under development. The authors
-are in no way responsible for any damage that may occur, no matter how
-inconsequential.
-
-It seems that the Rio has a problem when sending .mp3 with low batteries.
-I suggest when the batteries are low and you want to transfer stuff that you
-replace it with a fresh one. In my case, what happened is I lost two 16kb
-blocks (they are no longer usable to store information to it). But I don't
-know if that's normal or not; it could simply be a problem with the flash
-memory.
-
-In an extreme case, I left my Rio playing overnight and the batteries wore
-down to nothing and appear to have corrupted the flash memory. My RIO
-needed to be replaced as a result. Diamond tech support is aware of the
-problem. Do NOT allow your batteries to wear down to nothing before
-changing them. It appears RIO 500 firmware does not handle low battery
-power well at all.
-
-On systems with OHCI controllers, the kernel OHCI code appears to have
-power on problems with some chipsets. If you are having problems
-connecting to your RIO 500, try turning it on first and then plugging it
-into the USB cable.
-
-Contact information:
---------------------
-
- The main page for the project is hosted at sourceforge.net in the following
- URL: <http://rio500.sourceforge.net>. You can also go to the project's
- sourceforge home page at: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/rio500/>.
- There is also a mailing list: rio500-users@lists.sourceforge.net
-
-Authors:
--------
-
-Most of the code was written by Cesar Miquel <miquel@df.uba.ar>. Keith
-Clayton <kclayton@jps.net> is incharge of the PPC port and making sure
-things work there. Bruce Tenison <btenison@dibbs.net> is adding support
-for .fon files and also does testing. The program will mostly sure be
-re-written and Pete Ikusz along with the rest will re-design it. I would
-also like to thank Tri Nguyen <tmn_3022000@hotmail.com> who provided use
-with some important information regarding the communication with the Rio.
-
-ADDITIONAL INFORMATION and Userspace tools
-
-http://rio500.sourceforge.net/
-
-
-REQUIREMENTS
-
-A host with a USB port. Ideally, either a UHCI (Intel) or OHCI
-(Compaq and others) hardware port should work.
-
-A Linux development kernel (2.3.x) with USB support enabled or a
-backported version to linux-2.2.x. See http://www.linux-usb.org for
-more information on accomplishing this.
-
-A Linux kernel with RIO 500 support enabled.
-
-'lspci' which is only needed to determine the type of USB hardware
-available in your machine.
-
-CONFIGURATION
-
-Using `lspci -v`, determine the type of USB hardware available.
-
- If you see something like:
-
- USB Controller: ......
- Flags: .....
- I/O ports at ....
-
- Then you have a UHCI based controller.
-
- If you see something like:
-
- USB Controller: .....
- Flags: ....
- Memory at .....
-
- Then you have a OHCI based controller.
-
-Using `make menuconfig` or your preferred method for configuring the
-kernel, select 'Support for USB', 'OHCI/UHCI' depending on your
-hardware (determined from the steps above), 'USB Diamond Rio500 support', and
-'Preliminary USB device filesystem'. Compile and install the modules
-(you may need to execute `depmod -a` to update the module
-dependencies).
-
-Add a device for the USB rio500:
- `mknod /dev/usb/rio500 c 180 64`
-
-Set appropriate permissions for /dev/usb/rio500 (don't forget about
-group and world permissions). Both read and write permissions are
-required for proper operation.
-
-Load the appropriate modules (if compiled as modules):
-
- OHCI:
- modprobe usbcore
- modprobe usb-ohci
- modprobe rio500
-
- UHCI:
- modprobe usbcore
- modprobe usb-uhci (or uhci)
- modprobe rio500
-
-That's it. The Rio500 Utils at: http://rio500.sourceforge.net should
-be able to access the rio500.
-
-BUGS
-
-If you encounter any problems feel free to drop me an email.
-
-Bruce Tenison
-btenison@dibbs.net
-