From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752735AbaBLCTt (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:19:49 -0500 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:57468 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751975AbaBLCTs (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:19:48 -0500 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , "David S. Miller" CC: Paul Gortmaker Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation/networking: delete orphaned 3c505.txt file. Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:19:34 -0500 Message-ID: <1392171574-6231-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.2 In-Reply-To: <1392169920-5713-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1392169920-5713-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- [v2: also delete the 00-INDEX entry] diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index 557b6ef70c26..c3a55d68f1e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ 00-INDEX - this file -3c505.txt - - information on the 3Com EtherLink Plus (3c505) driver. 3c509.txt - information on the 3Com Etherlink III Series Ethernet cards. 6pack.txt 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 @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -The 3Com Etherlink Plus (3c505) driver. - -This driver now uses DMA. There is currently no support for PIO operation. -The default DMA channel is 6; this is _not_ autoprobed, so you must -make sure you configure it correctly. If loading the driver as a -module, you can do this with "modprobe 3c505 dma=n". If the driver is -linked statically into the kernel, you must either use an "ether=" -statement on the command line, or change the definition of ELP_DMA in 3c505.h. - -The driver will warn you if it has to fall back on the compiled in -default DMA channel. - -If no base address is given at boot time, the driver will autoprobe -ports 0x300, 0x280 and 0x310 (in that order). If no IRQ is given, the driver -will try to probe for it. - -The driver can be used as a loadable module. - -Theoretically, one instance of the driver can now run multiple cards, -in the standard way (when loading a module, say "modprobe 3c505 -io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11 dma=6,7" or whatever). I have not tested -this, though. - -The driver may now support revision 2 hardware; the dependency on -being able to read the host control register has been removed. This -is also untested, since I don't have a suitable card. - -Known problems: - I still see "DMA upload timed out" messages from time to time. These -seem to be fairly non-fatal though. - The card is old and slow. - -To do: - Improve probe/setup code - Test multicast and promiscuous operation - -Authors: - The driver is mainly written by Craig Southeren, email - . - Parts of the driver (adapting the driver to 1.1.4+ kernels, - IRQ/address detection, some changes) and this README by - Juha Laiho . - DMA mode, more fixes, etc, by Philip Blundell - Multicard support, Software configurable DMA, etc., by - Christopher Collins -- 1.8.5.2