net: wan: Delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers
The DLCI driver (dlci.c) implements the Frame Relay protocol. However, we already have another newer and better implementation of Frame Relay provided by the HDLC_FR driver (hdlc_fr.c). The DLCI driver's implementation of Frame Relay is used by only one hardware driver in the kernel - the SDLA driver (sdla.c). The SDLA driver provides Frame Relay support for the Sangoma S50x devices. However, the vendor provides their own driver (along with their own multi-WAN-protocol implementations including Frame Relay), called WANPIPE. I believe most users of the hardware would use the vendor-provided WANPIPE driver instead. (The WANPIPE driver was even once in the kernel, but was deleted in commit 8db60bcf ("[WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma drivers.") because the vendor no longer updated the in-kernel WANPIPE driver.) Cc: Mike McLagan <mike.mclagan@linux.org> Signed-off-by:Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201114150921.685594-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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- CREDITS 0 additions, 9 deletionsCREDITS
- Documentation/networking/framerelay.rst 0 additions, 44 deletionsDocumentation/networking/framerelay.rst
- MAINTAINERS 0 additions, 6 deletionsMAINTAINERS
- arch/arm/configs/ixp4xx_defconfig 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/arm/configs/ixp4xx_defconfig
- arch/mips/configs/gpr_defconfig 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/mips/configs/gpr_defconfig
- arch/mips/configs/mtx1_defconfig 0 additions, 1 deletionarch/mips/configs/mtx1_defconfig
- drivers/net/wan/Kconfig 0 additions, 45 deletionsdrivers/net/wan/Kconfig
- drivers/net/wan/Makefile 0 additions, 2 deletionsdrivers/net/wan/Makefile
- drivers/net/wan/dlci.c 0 additions, 541 deletionsdrivers/net/wan/dlci.c
- drivers/net/wan/sdla.c 0 additions, 1655 deletionsdrivers/net/wan/sdla.c
- include/linux/if_frad.h 0 additions, 92 deletionsinclude/linux/if_frad.h
- include/linux/sdla.h 0 additions, 240 deletionsinclude/linux/sdla.h
- include/uapi/linux/if_frad.h 0 additions, 123 deletionsinclude/uapi/linux/if_frad.h
- include/uapi/linux/sdla.h 0 additions, 117 deletionsinclude/uapi/linux/sdla.h
- net/socket.c 0 additions, 25 deletionsnet/socket.c
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