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author | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2014-02-11 20:52:00 -0500 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-02-13 17:08:29 -0500 |
commit | 455016e5dc623cb784dbaa4f197054ab87d84c76 (patch) | |
tree | 80d9c0b367d85c9bac19423fd0ee403ff2ca30fb /Documentation/networking | |
parent | efb842c45e667332774196bd5a1d539d048159cc (diff) |
Documentation/networking: delete orphaned 3c505.txt file.
In the commit 0e245dbaac9fa1c2fd0f4e2af7b9f6d874083a8b
("drivers/net: delete the 3Com 3c505/3c507 intel i825xx support")
we clobbered the 3c505 driver (over a year ago) along with other
abandoned ISA drivers.
However, this orphaned README file escaped detection at that
time, and has lived on until today. Get rid of it now.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/3c505.txt | 45 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/3c505.txt b/Documentation/networking/3c505.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 72f38b13101d..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/3c505.txt +++ /dev/null | |||
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1 | The 3Com Etherlink Plus (3c505) driver. | ||
2 | |||
3 | This driver now uses DMA. There is currently no support for PIO operation. | ||
4 | The default DMA channel is 6; this is _not_ autoprobed, so you must | ||
5 | make sure you configure it correctly. If loading the driver as a | ||
6 | module, you can do this with "modprobe 3c505 dma=n". If the driver is | ||
7 | linked statically into the kernel, you must either use an "ether=" | ||
8 | statement on the command line, or change the definition of ELP_DMA in 3c505.h. | ||
9 | |||
10 | The driver will warn you if it has to fall back on the compiled in | ||
11 | default DMA channel. | ||
12 | |||
13 | If no base address is given at boot time, the driver will autoprobe | ||
14 | ports 0x300, 0x280 and 0x310 (in that order). If no IRQ is given, the driver | ||
15 | will try to probe for it. | ||
16 | |||
17 | The driver can be used as a loadable module. | ||
18 | |||
19 | Theoretically, one instance of the driver can now run multiple cards, | ||
20 | in the standard way (when loading a module, say "modprobe 3c505 | ||
21 | io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11 dma=6,7" or whatever). I have not tested | ||
22 | this, though. | ||
23 | |||
24 | The driver may now support revision 2 hardware; the dependency on | ||
25 | being able to read the host control register has been removed. This | ||
26 | is also untested, since I don't have a suitable card. | ||
27 | |||
28 | Known problems: | ||
29 | I still see "DMA upload timed out" messages from time to time. These | ||
30 | seem to be fairly non-fatal though. | ||
31 | The card is old and slow. | ||
32 | |||
33 | To do: | ||
34 | Improve probe/setup code | ||
35 | Test multicast and promiscuous operation | ||
36 | |||
37 | Authors: | ||
38 | The driver is mainly written by Craig Southeren, email | ||
39 | <craigs@ineluki.apana.org.au>. | ||
40 | Parts of the driver (adapting the driver to 1.1.4+ kernels, | ||
41 | IRQ/address detection, some changes) and this README by | ||
42 | Juha Laiho <jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi>. | ||
43 | DMA mode, more fixes, etc, by Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk> | ||
44 | Multicard support, Software configurable DMA, etc., by | ||
45 | Christopher Collins <ccollins@pcug.org.au> | ||