staging: qlge: Retire the driver
authorBenjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:44:57 +0000 (08:44 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:52:54 +0000 (11:52 +0200)
commit875be090928d19ff4ae7cbaadb54707abb3befdf
tree33b01cd452aa19eaef847c1d910355d4d74ac0ab
parent88eddb0cce1c654090d94499b7c78085b23b7c2f
staging: qlge: Retire the driver

No significant improvements have been done to this driver since commit
a7c3ddf29a78 ("staging: qlge: clean up debugging code in the QL_ALL_DUMP
ifdef land") in January 2021. The driver should not stay in staging
forever. Since it has been abandoned by the vendor and no one has stepped
up to maintain it, delete it.

If some users manifest themselves, the driver will be restored to
drivers/net/ as suggested in the linked message.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org/
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231020124457.312449-3-benjamin.poirier@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
17 files changed:
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/index.rst [deleted file]
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/qlogic/qlge.rst [deleted file]
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arch/parisc/configs/generic-64bit_defconfig
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/qlge/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/TODO [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c [deleted file]