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authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2013-01-20 17:14:45 -0500
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2013-01-22 10:39:55 -0500
commit0ffd89e48fc10f9665b07615cde40b1775b24570 (patch)
tree1732ddb968af3f0854d313bfa0c4b75895d2c803 /Documentation/networking
parent1f1c7a5c1dca01dd8f3f740420f92c7d1d2ae080 (diff)
drivers/net: delete Digital EtherWorks-3 support.
This is another one that makes sense to target for obsolescence, since it (a)appeared pre-1995, and (b)was rather rare, and (c)did not really have any statistically significant active linux user base. Removing this ISA 10Mbit driver support is unlikely to be even noticed by the user base of 3.9+ linux kernels, especially when the documentation clearly indicates the vintage with this text: "...designed to work with all kernels > 1.1.33" Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt46
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
index 6ec1d6f368af..258d9b92c36f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
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@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ e1000e.txt
70 - README for the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver (e1000e). 70 - README for the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver (e1000e).
71eql.txt 71eql.txt
72 - serial IP load balancing 72 - serial IP load balancing
73ewrk3.txt
74 - the Digital EtherWORKS 3 DE203/4/5 Ethernet driver
75fib_trie.txt 73fib_trie.txt
76 - Level Compressed Trie (LC-trie) notes: a structure for routing. 74 - Level Compressed Trie (LC-trie) notes: a structure for routing.
77filter.txt 75filter.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt b/Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt
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index 90e9e5f16e6b..000000000000
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1The EtherWORKS 3 driver in this distribution is designed to work with all
2kernels > 1.1.33 (approx) and includes tools in the 'ewrk3tools'
3subdirectory to allow set up of the card, similar to the MSDOS
4'NICSETUP.EXE' tools provided on the DOS drivers disk (type 'make' in that
5subdirectory to make the tools).
6
7The supported cards are DE203, DE204 and DE205. All other cards are NOT
8supported - refer to 'depca.c' for running the LANCE based network cards and
9'de4x5.c' for the DIGITAL Semiconductor PCI chip based adapters from
10Digital.
11
12The ability to load this driver as a loadable module has been included and
13used extensively during the driver development (to save those long reboot
14sequences). To utilise this ability, you have to do 8 things:
15
16 0) have a copy of the loadable modules code installed on your system.
17 1) copy ewrk3.c from the /linux/drivers/net directory to your favourite
18 temporary directory.
19 2) edit the source code near line 1898 to reflect the I/O address and
20 IRQ you're using.
21 3) compile ewrk3.c, but include -DMODULE in the command line to ensure
22 that the correct bits are compiled (see end of source code).
23 4) if you are wanting to add a new card, goto 5. Otherwise, recompile a
24 kernel with the ewrk3 configuration turned off and reboot.
25 5) insmod ewrk3.o
26 [Alan Cox: Changed this so you can insmod ewrk3.o irq=x io=y]
27 [Adam Kropelin: Multiple cards now supported by irq=x1,x2 io=y1,y2]
28 6) run the net startup bits for your new eth?? interface manually
29 (usually /etc/rc.inet[12] at boot time).
30 7) enjoy!
31
32 Note that autoprobing is not allowed in loadable modules - the system is
33 already up and running and you're messing with interrupts.
34
35 To unload a module, turn off the associated interface
36 'ifconfig eth?? down' then 'rmmod ewrk3'.
37
38The performance we've achieved so far has been measured through the 'ttcp'
39tool at 975kB/s. This measures the total TCP stack performance which
40includes the card, so don't expect to get much nearer the 1.25MB/s
41theoretical Ethernet rate.
42
43
44Enjoy!
45
46Dave