Merge tag 'isdn-removal' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground

Arnd Bergmann says:

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isdn: deprecate non-mISDN drivers

When isdn4linux came up in the context of another patch series, I
remembered that we had discussed removing it a while ago.

It turns out that the suggestion from Karsten Keil wa to remove I4L
in 2018 after the last public ISDN networks are shut down. This has
happened now (with a very small number of exceptions), so I guess it's
time to try again.

We currently have three ISDN stacks in the kernel: the original
isdn4linux (with the hisax driver), the newer CAPI (with four drivers),
and finally the mISDN stack (supporting roughly the same hardware as
hisax).

As far as I can tell, anyone using ISDN with mainline kernel drivers in
the past few years uses mISDN, and this is typically used for voice-only
PBX installations that don't require a public network.

The older stacks support additional features for data networks, but those
typically make no sense any more if there is no network to connect to.

My proposal for this time is to kill off isdn4linux entirely, as it seems
to have been unusable for quite a while. This code has been abandoned
for many years and it does cause problems for treewide maintenance as
it tends to do everything that we try to stop doing.
Birger Harzenetter mentioned that is is still using i4l in order to
make use of the 'divert' feature that is not part of mISDN, but has
otherwise moved on to mISDN for normal operation, like apparently
everyone else.

CAPI in turn is not quite as obsolete, but two of the drivers (avm
and hysdn) don't seem to be used at all, while another one (gigaset)
will stop being maintained as Paul Bolle is no longer able to
test it after the network gets shut down in September.
All three are now moved into drivers/staging to let others speak
up in case there are remaining users.
This leaves Bluetooth CMTP as the only remaining user of CAPI, but
Marcel Holtmann wishes to keep maintaining it.

For the discussion on version 1, see [2]
Unfortunately, Karsten Keil as the maintainer has not participated in
the discussion.

      Arnd

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8484861/#17900371
[2] https://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2019-April/thread.html
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 66 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax_if.h b/drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax_if.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 7098d6bd5ff2..000000000000
--- a/drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax_if.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Interface between low level (hardware) drivers and
- * HiSax protocol stack
- *
- * Author       Kai Germaschewski
- * Copyright    2001 by Kai Germaschewski  <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
- *
- * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
- * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
- *
- */
-
-#ifndef __HISAX_IF_H__
-#define __HISAX_IF_H__
-
-#include <linux/skbuff.h>
-
-#define REQUEST		0
-#define CONFIRM		1
-#define INDICATION	2
-#define RESPONSE	3
-
-#define PH_ACTIVATE	0x0100
-#define PH_DEACTIVATE	0x0110
-#define PH_DATA		0x0120
-#define PH_PULL		0x0130
-#define PH_DATA_E	0x0140
-
-#define L1_MODE_NULL	0
-#define L1_MODE_TRANS	1
-#define L1_MODE_HDLC	2
-#define L1_MODE_EXTRN	3
-#define L1_MODE_HDLC_56K 4
-#define L1_MODE_MODEM	7
-#define L1_MODE_V32	8
-#define L1_MODE_FAX	9
-
-struct hisax_if {
-	void *priv; // private to driver
-	void (*l1l2)(struct hisax_if *, int pr, void *arg);
-	void (*l2l1)(struct hisax_if *, int pr, void *arg);
-};
-
-struct hisax_b_if {
-	struct hisax_if ifc;
-
-	// private to hisax
-	struct BCState *bcs;
-};
-
-struct hisax_d_if {
-	struct hisax_if ifc;
-
-	// private to hisax
-	struct module *owner;
-	struct IsdnCardState *cs;
-	struct hisax_b_if *b_if[2];
-	struct sk_buff_head erq;
-	unsigned long ph_state;
-};
-
-int hisax_register(struct hisax_d_if *hisax_if, struct hisax_b_if *b_if[],
-		   char *name, int protocol);
-void hisax_unregister(struct hisax_d_if *hisax_if);
-
-#endif