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[2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

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Arnd Bergmann March 2, 2016, 7:06 p.m. UTC 
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>
---
 Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX                                 |  8 --------
 drivers/isdn/Makefile                                       |  3 ---
 drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig                                    | 10 ----------
 drivers/staging/Kconfig                                     |  2 ++
 drivers/staging/Makefile                                    |  1 +
 .../staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.act2000               |  0
 .../isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.icn   |  0
 .../isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.pcbit |  0
 .../isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.sc    |  0
 drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig                                 | 13 +++++++++++++
 drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile                                |  5 +++++
 drivers/staging/i4l/TODO                                    |  3 +++
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Kconfig               |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Makefile              |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000.h             |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.c         |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.h         |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.c                |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.h                |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/module.c              |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Kconfig                   |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Makefile                  |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.c                     |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.h                     |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Kconfig                 |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Makefile                |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.c             |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.h             |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.c                  |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.h                  |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/drv.c                   |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.c                 |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.h                 |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.c                |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.h                |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/module.c                |  0
 drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/pcbit.h                 |  0
 37 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.act2000 (100%)
 rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.icn (100%)
 rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.pcbit (100%)
 rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.sc (100%)
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/i4l/TODO
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Kconfig (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Makefile (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/module.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Kconfig (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Makefile (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Kconfig (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Makefile (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/drv.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.h (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/module.c (100%)
 rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/pcbit.h (100%)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Kconfig
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/Kconfig
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Kconfig
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Makefile
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/Makefile
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Makefile
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/module.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/module.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/module.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/module.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Kconfig
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/icn/Kconfig
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Kconfig
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Makefile
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/icn/Makefile
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Makefile
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Kconfig
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/Kconfig
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Kconfig
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Makefile
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/Makefile
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Makefile
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/drv.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/drv.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/drv.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/drv.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.h
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/module.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/module.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/module.c
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/module.c
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/pcbit.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/pcbit.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/pcbit.h
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/pcbit.h

Comments

Karsten Keil March 3, 2016, 8:30 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Arnd,
I fully agree and ack.
Thanks for the work.
Am 02.03.2016 um 20:06 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> 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>
> ---
>  Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX                                 |  8 --------
>  drivers/isdn/Makefile                                       |  3 ---
>  drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig                                    | 10 ----------
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                                     |  2 ++
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                                    |  1 +
>  .../staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.act2000               |  0
>  .../isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.icn   |  0
>  .../isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.pcbit |  0
>  .../isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.sc    |  0
>  drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig                                 | 13 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile                                |  5 +++++
>  drivers/staging/i4l/TODO                                    |  3 +++
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Kconfig               |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Makefile              |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000.h             |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.c         |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.h         |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.c                |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.h                |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/module.c              |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Kconfig                   |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Makefile                  |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.c                     |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.h                     |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Kconfig                 |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Makefile                |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.c             |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.h             |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.c                  |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.h                  |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/drv.c                   |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.c                 |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.h                 |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.c                |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.h                |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/module.c                |  0
>  drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/pcbit.h                 |  0
>  37 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>  rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.act2000 (100%)
>  rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.icn (100%)
>  rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.pcbit (100%)
>  rename {Documentation/isdn => drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation}/README.sc (100%)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/i4l/TODO
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Kconfig (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/Makefile (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/act2000_isa.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/capi.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/act2000/module.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Kconfig (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/Makefile (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/icn/icn.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Kconfig (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/Makefile (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/callbacks.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/capi.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/drv.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/edss1.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/layer2.h (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/module.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/{isdn => staging/i4l}/pcbit/pcbit.h (100%)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX b/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
> index e87e336f590e..2d1889b6c1fa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
> +++ b/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
> @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ README.FAQ
>  	- general info for FAQ.
>  README.HiSax
>  	- info on the HiSax driver which replaces the old teles.
> -README.act2000
> -	- info on driver for IBM ACT-2000 card.
>  README.audio
>  	- info for running audio over ISDN.
>  README.avmb1
> @@ -34,14 +32,8 @@ README.hfc-pci
>  	- info on hfc-pci based cards.
>  README.hysdn
>          - info on driver for Hypercope active HYSDN cards
> -README.icn
> -	- info on the ICN-ISDN-card and its driver.
>  README.mISDN
>  	- info on the Modular ISDN subsystem (mISDN)
> -README.pcbit
> -	- info on the PCBIT-D ISDN adapter and driver.
> -README.sc
> -	- info on driver for Spellcaster cards.
>  README.syncppp
>  	- info on running Sync PPP over ISDN.
>  README.x25
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/Makefile b/drivers/isdn/Makefile
> index 91c81965e7ca..c32e45826c2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/isdn/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/isdn/Makefile
> @@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MISDN)			+= mISDN/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN)			+= hardware/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DIVERSION)		+= divert/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX)		+= hisax/
> -obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ICN)		+= icn/
> -obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_PCBIT)		+= pcbit/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_LOOP)		+= isdnloop/
> -obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ACT2000)		+= act2000/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HYSDN)			+= hysdn/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_GIGASET)		+= gigaset/
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig b/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig
> index f5b714cd7618..68e54d9f2f53 100644
> --- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig
> @@ -123,16 +123,6 @@ comment "ISDN4Linux hardware drivers"
>  
>  source "drivers/isdn/hisax/Kconfig"
>  
> -
> -menu "Active cards"
> -
> -source "drivers/isdn/icn/Kconfig"
> -
> -source "drivers/isdn/pcbit/Kconfig"
> -
> -source "drivers/isdn/act2000/Kconfig"
> -
> -endmenu
>  # end ISDN_I4L
>  endif
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> index 5f9a97a77393..ff894bc63b3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
> @@ -104,4 +104,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/wilc1000/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "drivers/staging/most/Kconfig"
>  
> +source "drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig"
> +
>  endif # STAGING
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile
> index b3920c224013..8242923371ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/staging/Makefile
> @@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TFT)		+= fbtft/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_MC_BUS)	+= fsl-mc/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_WILC1000)		+= wilc1000/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_MOST)		+= most/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_I4L)		+= i4l/
> diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.act2000 b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.act2000
> similarity index 100%
> rename from Documentation/isdn/README.act2000
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.act2000
> diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.icn b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.icn
> similarity index 100%
> rename from Documentation/isdn/README.icn
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.icn
> diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.pcbit b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.pcbit
> similarity index 100%
> rename from Documentation/isdn/README.pcbit
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.pcbit
> diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.sc b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.sc
> similarity index 100%
> rename from Documentation/isdn/README.sc
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.sc
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..920216e88de7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> +#
> +# Old ISDN4Linux config
> +#
> +menu "Old ISDN4Linux (deprecated)"
> +	depends on ISDN_I4L
> +
> +source "drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Kconfig"
> +
> +source "drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Kconfig"
> +
> +endmenu
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..158b87093db5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +# Makefile for the old ISDN I4L subsystem and device drivers.
> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ICN)		+= icn/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_PCBIT)		+= pcbit/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ACT2000)		+= act2000/
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/TODO b/drivers/staging/i4l/TODO
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..6fe2c08bec7a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/TODO
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +* The icn, pcbit and act2000 drivers are dead, remove them in 2017
> +  after another longterm kernel has been released, just in the
> +  unlikely case someone still has this hardware.
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Kconfig
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/Kconfig
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Kconfig
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Makefile
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/Makefile
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Makefile
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/act2000_isa.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/act2000_isa.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/capi.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/act2000/module.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/module.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/act2000/module.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/module.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Kconfig
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/icn/Kconfig
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Kconfig
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Makefile
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/icn/Makefile
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Makefile
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Kconfig
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/Kconfig
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Kconfig
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Makefile
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/Makefile
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Makefile
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/callbacks.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/callbacks.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/capi.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/capi.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/drv.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/drv.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/drv.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/drv.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/edss1.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/edss1.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/layer2.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/layer2.h
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/module.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/module.c
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/module.c
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/module.c
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/pcbit/pcbit.h b/drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/pcbit.h
> similarity index 100%
> rename from drivers/isdn/pcbit/pcbit.h
> rename to drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/pcbit.h
>
David Miller March 3, 2016, 10:22 p.m. UTC | #2 
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed,  2 Mar 2016 20:06:46 +0100

> 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>

Greg, can you please take these two patches?

Thanks!
Greg KH March 3, 2016, 10:33 p.m. UTC | #3 
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:22:22PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date: Wed,  2 Mar 2016 20:06:46 +0100
> 
> > 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>
> 
> Greg, can you please take these two patches?

will do
Arnd Bergmann March 4, 2016, 3:24 p.m. UTC | #4 
On Thursday 03 March 2016 09:30:38 isdn@linux-pingi.de wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> I fully agree and ack.
> Thanks for the work.
> 

I actually did more patches that I ended up not submitting:

* move hisax to staging
* remove i4l support from gigaset
* move i4l core to staging

while I initially thought that i4l as a whole is not just unmaintained
but also more or less unused, patch 19cebbcb04c8 ("isdn: Partially
revert debug format string usage clean up") came in that indicated that
there are still users that even send patches for hisax, and that
made me doubt whether we could consider it obsolete enough.

Any thoughts on this? If you like, I can send those too.

My main motivation was to not have to fix up the ippp implementation
when I move the compat ioctl handler from fs/compat_ioctl.c
into drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c, but I guess I can do that
anyway as it seems that i4l never worked properly in compat mode.

	Arnd
Paul Bolle March 4, 2016, 4:18 p.m. UTC | #5 
[Added Tilman and Christoph.]

On vr, 2016-03-04 at 16:24 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I actually did more patches that I ended up not submitting:
> 
> * move hisax to staging
> * remove i4l support from gigaset

For the record: I have no reason to object a patch that does that. (I'm
not aware anyone complained when gigaset switched its default from i4l
to capi. By now all relevant distributions should use our capi driver.)

> * move i4l core to staging

On a local tree I have two (draft) patches that do some related
preliminary work:
- isdnhdlc: move into separate directory
- mISDN: NETJet: stop selecting ISDN_I4L

These trivial patches untangle mISDN and i4l. Perhaps you did something
similar in your "move i4l core to staging".

> while I initially thought that i4l as a whole is not just unmaintained
> but also more or less unused, patch 19cebbcb04c8 ("isdn: Partially
> revert debug format string usage clean up") came in that indicated
> that
> there are still users that even send patches for hisax, and that
> made me doubt whether we could consider it obsolete enough.

See also commit 3460baa62068 ("PCI: Fix minimum allocation address
overwrite").

> Any thoughts on this? If you like, I can send those too.

For my part I'm surprised that anyone is still using it. But apparently
the hardware that required commit 19cebbcb04c8 and 3460baa62068  (which
I'm unfamiliar with) is still operational. And since there never has
been, as far as I know, a global i4l to capi migration nor a global i4l
(and capi) to mISDN migration it might be that some people are stuck on
i4l drivers for their hardware. Perhaps that explains Cristoph's
commits.

> My main motivation was to not have to fix up the ippp implementation
> when I move the compat ioctl handler from fs/compat_ioctl.c
> into drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c, but I guess I can do that
> anyway as it seems that i4l never worked properly in compat mode.


Paul Bolle
Arnd Bergmann March 4, 2016, 4:32 p.m. UTC | #6 
On Friday 04 March 2016 17:18:23 Paul Bolle wrote:
> [Added Tilman and Christoph.]
> 
> On vr, 2016-03-04 at 16:24 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I actually did more patches that I ended up not submitting:
> > 
> > * move hisax to staging
> > * remove i4l support from gigaset
> 
> For the record: I have no reason to object a patch that does that. (I'm
> not aware anyone complained when gigaset switched its default from i4l
> to capi. By now all relevant distributions should use our capi driver.)

Ok.

> > * move i4l core to staging
> 
> On a local tree I have two (draft) patches that do some related
> preliminary work:
> - isdnhdlc: move into separate directory
> - mISDN: NETJet: stop selecting ISDN_I4L
> 
> These trivial patches untangle mISDN and i4l. Perhaps you did something
> similar in your "move i4l core to staging".

Yes, I have the same thing. I didn't mention it here as it should
be completely non-controversial.

A third patch moves the capidrv source from drivers/isdn/capi/
into the i4l directory.

> > Any thoughts on this? If you like, I can send those too.
> 
> For my part I'm surprised that anyone is still using it. But apparently
> the hardware that required commit 19cebbcb04c8 and 3460baa62068  (which
> I'm unfamiliar with) is still operational. And since there never has
> been, as far as I know, a global i4l to capi migration nor a global i4l
> (and capi) to mISDN migration it might be that some people are stuck on
> i4l drivers for their hardware. Perhaps that explains Cristoph's
> commits.

My understanding is that it's not about the hardware, and that all
devices that people actually use with hisax should also with with
mISDN.

Instead, the only argument I've heard about keeping i4l and hisax
around (indefinitely) is that existing user space tools are written
for i4l and not ported to mISDN. They work fine with CAPI drivers
using capidrv.ko, but there is no i4l emulation on top of mISDN.

	Arnd
Karsten Keil March 4, 2016, 6:18 p.m. UTC | #7 
Am 04.03.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> On Thursday 03 March 2016 09:30:38 isdn@linux-pingi.de wrote:
>> Hi Arnd,
>> I fully agree and ack.
>> Thanks for the work.
>>
> 
> I actually did more patches that I ended up not submitting:
> 
> * move hisax to staging
> * remove i4l support from gigaset
> * move i4l core to staging
> 
> while I initially thought that i4l as a whole is not just unmaintained
> but also more or less unused, patch 19cebbcb04c8 ("isdn: Partially
> revert debug format string usage clean up") came in that indicated that
> there are still users that even send patches for hisax, and that
> made me doubt whether we could consider it obsolete enough.
> 
> Any thoughts on this? If you like, I can send those too.

I4L is still in use on some sides and here is no 100% replacement (net
via RAW IP mode, terminal via X.75).

This week I got some question from a big retail chain  in Germany about
migration. I never know that they are  using this stuff (for initial
setup of remote shops).

So I would not drop i4l yet, maybe we should propose this for 2018.
I4L is not so usefull for NT mode, which is very popular nowadays for
gateways into the new full IP world. Some design ins with mISDN here,
mostly in the embedded area.

> 
> My main motivation was to not have to fix up the ippp implementation
> when I move the compat ioctl handler from fs/compat_ioctl.c
> into drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c, but I guess I can do that
> anyway as it seems that i4l never worked properly in compat mode.
> 
> 	Arnd
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
Arnd Bergmann March 4, 2016, 9 p.m. UTC | #8 
On Friday 04 March 2016 19:18:49 isdn@linux-pingi.de wrote:
> Am 04.03.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> > On Thursday 03 March 2016 09:30:38 isdn@linux-pingi.de wrote:
> >> Hi Arnd,
> >> I fully agree and ack.
> >> Thanks for the work.
> >>
> > 
> > I actually did more patches that I ended up not submitting:
> > 
> > * move hisax to staging
> > * remove i4l support from gigaset
> > * move i4l core to staging
> > 
> > while I initially thought that i4l as a whole is not just unmaintained
> > but also more or less unused, patch 19cebbcb04c8 ("isdn: Partially
> > revert debug format string usage clean up") came in that indicated that
> > there are still users that even send patches for hisax, and that
> > made me doubt whether we could consider it obsolete enough.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this? If you like, I can send those too.
> 
> I4L is still in use on some sides and here is no 100% replacement (net
> via RAW IP mode, terminal via X.75).

I see.

> This week I got some question from a big retail chain  in Germany about
> migration. I never know that they are  using this stuff (for initial
> setup of remote shops).

Just for more background, do you know how old the kernel is that they
(or other i4l users you know of) are currently using?

> So I would not drop i4l yet, maybe we should propose this for 2018.
> I4L is not so usefull for NT mode, which is very popular nowadays for
> gateways into the new full IP world. Some design ins with mISDN here,
> mostly in the embedded area.

Ok, with a planned 2018 removal date I think we can consider moving
it all to staging now, that would give at least everyone who still uses
modern kernels a warning ahead of time so they can either plan the
migration away from i4l (or away from ISDN in other cases), as well as
a chance for us to hear about any remaining active users and whether
they need a later removal date.

In the TODO file for the active ISDN drivers, I have listed 2017
after the longterm kernel as the date for the projected removal.
If we decide to move the rest of I4L to staging with a date of
2018 (after the longterm release), that gives users at least until
2020 before they stop seeing upstream bug fixes for a kernel with
an included i4l, and many are probably stuck with running unsupported
older kernels anyway.

For reference, the currently largest provider of ISDN phone lines
is Deutsche Telekom, and they plan to disconnect their last user
in 2018, while Vodafone Germany said they will continue their service
until 2022, but my interpretation of their website fine print is that
this is only true for expensive S2M connections that few people use.

	Arnd
kernel test robot March 5, 2016, 3:19 a.m. UTC | #9 
Hi Arnd,

[auto build test WARNING on staging/staging-testing]
[also build test WARNING on v4.5-rc6 next-20160304]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improving the system]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Arnd-Bergmann/isdn-icn-remove-a-warning/20160303-031435
config: m68k-allyesconfig (attached as .config)
reproduce:
        wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        make.cross ARCH=m68k 

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

   In file included from arch/m68k/include/asm/io_mm.h:26:0,
                    from arch/m68k/include/asm/io.h:4,
                    from include/linux/io.h:25,
                    from drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h:41,
                    from drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c:12:
   drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c: In function 'icn_shiftout':
   arch/m68k/include/asm/raw_io.h:43:32: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
    #define out_8(addr,b) (void)((*(__force volatile u8 *) (addr)) = (b))
                                   ^
   arch/m68k/include/asm/io_mm.h:396:72: note: in expansion of macro 'out_8'
    #define outb(val, port) ((port) < 1024 ? isa_rom_outb((val), (port)) : out_8((port), (val)))
                                                                           ^
>> drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h:59:16: note: in expansion of macro 'outb'
    #define OUTB_P outb
                   ^
>> drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c:89:3: note: in expansion of macro 'OUTB_P'
      OUTB_P((u_char) ((val >> s) & 1) ? 0xff : 0, port);
      ^

vim +/outb +59 drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.h

^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  35  #ifdef __KERNEL__
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  36  /* Kernel includes */
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  37  
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  38  #include <linux/errno.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  39  #include <linux/fs.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  40  #include <linux/major.h>
2584cf83 drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Dan Williams   2015-08-10 @41  #include <linux/io.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  42  #include <linux/kernel.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  43  #include <linux/signal.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  44  #include <linux/slab.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  45  #include <linux/mm.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  46  #include <linux/mman.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  47  #include <linux/ioport.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  48  #include <linux/timer.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  49  #include <linux/wait.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  50  #include <linux/delay.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  51  #include <linux/isdnif.h>
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  52  
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  53  #endif                          /* __KERNEL__ */
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  54  
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  55  /* some useful macros for debugging */
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  56  #ifdef ICN_DEBUG_PORT
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  57  #define OUTB_P(v, p) {printk(KERN_DEBUG "icn: outb_p(0x%02x,0x%03x)\n", v, p); outb_p(v, p);}
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  58  #else
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 @59  #define OUTB_P outb
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  60  #endif
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  61  
^1da177e drivers/isdn/icn/icn.h Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16  62  /* Defaults for Port-Address and shared-memory */

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Holger Schurig March 7, 2016, 6:57 a.m. UTC | #10 
I know that in Germany a good amount of land-line telephone line are
still using ISDN. Some telco company try to move people to IP only, but
this is currently still a process.

Especially company line are using ISDN still, and there are some Linux
programs that act on then, e.g. Asterisk and derived PBX software has
ISDN support which is actively used.
Paul Bolle March 7, 2016, 8:33 a.m. UTC | #11 
On vr, 2016-03-04 at 17:32 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A third patch moves the capidrv source from drivers/isdn/capi/
> into the i4l directory.

I see. Why exactly?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle
Tilman Schmidt March 19, 2016, 10:27 a.m. UTC | #12 
Am 07.03.2016 um 07:57 schrieb Holger Schurig:
> I know that in Germany a good amount of land-line telephone line are
> still using ISDN. [...]
> Especially company line are using ISDN still, and there are some Linux
> programs that act on then, e.g. Asterisk and derived PBX software has
> ISDN support which is actively used.

AFAIK none of these uses I4L anymore. Asterisk dropped I4L support with
version 2 if my memory is correct and nowadays uses CAPI, mISDN or its
own DAHDI interface.
Greg KH Jan. 3, 2017, 3:24 p.m. UTC | #13 
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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>

This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release.  As I am now taking
patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the
drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done
anything with it.  If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be
glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week.
Otherwise it's time to just move on :)

thanks,

greg k-h
Arnd Bergmann Jan. 3, 2017, 9:19 p.m. UTC | #14 
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 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>
> 
> This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release.  As I am now taking
> patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the
> drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done
> anything with it.  If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be
> glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week.
> Otherwise it's time to just move on 

Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that
I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not
come to a conclusion on:

isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code
isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l
isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging
isdn: move i4l to staging

I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful
for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN.  I also still think that
moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of
that code, even if there are a couple of users today.

	Arnd

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/4/762
Paul Bolle Jan. 3, 2017, 9:54 p.m. UTC | #15 
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that
> I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not
> come to a conclusion on:
> 
> isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code

Let me repeat that I'm fine with a patch that does that.

> isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l
> isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging
> isdn: move i4l to staging
> 
> I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful
> for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN.  I also still think that
> moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of
> that code, even if there are a couple of users today.

There are? And even if there are: is there any reason to expect that moving
the rest of i4l to staging will result in anything other than a stream of
checkpatch cleanups?

How often did a bunch of drivers re-enter the tree after being sent to
staging?


Paul Bolle
Arnd Bergmann Jan. 3, 2017, 10:25 p.m. UTC | #16 
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:54:19 PM CET Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l
> > isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging
> > isdn: move i4l to staging
> > 
> > I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful
> > for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN.  I also still think that
> > moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of
> > that code, even if there are a couple of users today.
> 
> There are? And even if there are: is there any reason to expect that moving
> the rest of i4l to staging will result in anything other than a stream of
> checkpatch cleanups?

To clarify: Karsten's concern was about the loss of features that are
present in i4l but not in mISDN. There were active users of those features
last year, so I assumed that there are still a few this year. However,
whether any of those users would ever need to move to a 4.11 kernel or
newer is an entirely different question.

As far as I'm concerned, we are totally fine as long as there exists a
longterm supported kernel that has i4l in drivers/staging. If we move
i4l to staging for v4.11 with the intention of removing it after the
2018 longterm release (i.e. after Deutsche Telekom turns off their
ISDN network), that gives us at least until 2020. I assume there will
be at least one older kernel with a longer end-of-support date.

> How often did a bunch of drivers re-enter the tree after being sent to
> staging?

Greg can probably answer that. I'm sure it's either never or very rare.
The only case of removed code coming back later is arch/h8300, which
was removed in 2013 and replaced with a much nicer implementation
in 2015.

	Arnd
Paul Bolle Jan. 3, 2017, 10:57 p.m. UTC | #17 
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 23:25 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As far as I'm concerned, we are totally fine as long as there exists a
> longterm supported kernel that has i4l in drivers/staging.

Or in drivers/isdn, right?


Paul Bolle
Arnd Bergmann Jan. 3, 2017, 11:03 p.m. UTC | #18 
On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:57:36 PM CET Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 23:25 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned, we are totally fine as long as there exists a
> > longterm supported kernel that has i4l in drivers/staging.
> 
> Or in drivers/isdn, right?

Right, I was assuming that we would first move it to staging and then
delete it, both at future points in time that we can debate. With the
existing longterm kernels that have i4l in drivers/isdn, the few remaining
users still have access to a supported kernel release until at least
2020.

	Arnd
Greg KH Jan. 5, 2017, 9:19 p.m. UTC | #19 
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:19:29PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > 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>
> > 
> > This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release.  As I am now taking
> > patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the
> > drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done
> > anything with it.  If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be
> > glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week.
> > Otherwise it's time to just move on 
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Ok, now deleted!

thanks,

greg k-h
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX b/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
index e87e336f590e..2d1889b6c1fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@  README.FAQ
 	- general info for FAQ.
 README.HiSax
 	- info on the HiSax driver which replaces the old teles.
-README.act2000
-	- info on driver for IBM ACT-2000 card.
 README.audio
 	- info for running audio over ISDN.
 README.avmb1
@@ -34,14 +32,8 @@  README.hfc-pci
 	- info on hfc-pci based cards.
 README.hysdn
         - info on driver for Hypercope active HYSDN cards
-README.icn
-	- info on the ICN-ISDN-card and its driver.
 README.mISDN
 	- info on the Modular ISDN subsystem (mISDN)
-README.pcbit
-	- info on the PCBIT-D ISDN adapter and driver.
-README.sc
-	- info on driver for Spellcaster cards.
 README.syncppp
 	- info on running Sync PPP over ISDN.
 README.x25
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/Makefile b/drivers/isdn/Makefile
index 91c81965e7ca..c32e45826c2c 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/isdn/Makefile
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@  obj-$(CONFIG_MISDN)			+= mISDN/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN)			+= hardware/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DIVERSION)		+= divert/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX)		+= hisax/
-obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ICN)		+= icn/
-obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_PCBIT)		+= pcbit/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_LOOP)		+= isdnloop/
-obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ACT2000)		+= act2000/
 obj-$(CONFIG_HYSDN)			+= hysdn/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_GIGASET)		+= gigaset/
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig b/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig
index f5b714cd7618..68e54d9f2f53 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/Kconfig
@@ -123,16 +123,6 @@  comment "ISDN4Linux hardware drivers"
 
 source "drivers/isdn/hisax/Kconfig"
 
-
-menu "Active cards"
-
-source "drivers/isdn/icn/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/isdn/pcbit/Kconfig"
-
-source "drivers/isdn/act2000/Kconfig"
-
-endmenu
 # end ISDN_I4L
 endif
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
index 5f9a97a77393..ff894bc63b3b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
@@ -104,4 +104,6 @@  source "drivers/staging/wilc1000/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/staging/most/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig"
+
 endif # STAGING
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile
index b3920c224013..8242923371ad 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/Makefile
@@ -41,3 +41,4 @@  obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TFT)		+= fbtft/
 obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_MC_BUS)	+= fsl-mc/
 obj-$(CONFIG_WILC1000)		+= wilc1000/
 obj-$(CONFIG_MOST)		+= most/
+obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_I4L)		+= i4l/
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.act2000 b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.act2000
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/isdn/README.act2000
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.act2000
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.icn b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.icn
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/isdn/README.icn
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.icn
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.pcbit b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.pcbit
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/isdn/README.pcbit
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.pcbit
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.sc b/drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.sc
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/isdn/README.sc
rename to drivers/staging/i4l/Documentation/README.sc
diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..920216e88de7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ 
+#
+# Old ISDN4Linux config
+#
+menu "Old ISDN4Linux (deprecated)"
+	depends on ISDN_I4L
+
+source "drivers/staging/i4l/icn/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/staging/i4l/pcbit/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/staging/i4l/act2000/Kconfig"
+
+endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile b/drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..158b87093db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ 
+# Makefile for the old ISDN I4L subsystem and device drivers.
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ICN)		+= icn/
+obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_PCBIT)		+= pcbit/
+obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_ACT2000)		+= act2000/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/TODO b/drivers/staging/i4l/TODO
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6fe2c08bec7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/TODO
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ 
+* The icn, pcbit and act2000 drivers are dead, remove them in 2017
+  after another longterm kernel has been released, just in the
+  unlikely case someone still has this hardware.