From de8270ff4642f78ff62e9bae20e6ebf39677880c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gortmaker Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:25:05 -0500 Subject: drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver. It was amusing that linux was able to make use of this 1980's technology on machines long past its intended lifespan, but it probably should go now. To set some context, the 3c501 was designed in the 1980's to be used on 8088 PC-XT 8bit ISA machines. It was built using a large number of discrete TTL components and truly looks like a relic of the ancient past before large scale integration was common. But from a functional point of view, the real issue, as stated in the (also obsolete) Ethernet-HowTo, is that "...the 3c501 can only do one thing at a time -- while you are removing one packet from the single-packet buffer it cannot receive another packet, nor can it receive a packet while loading a transmit packet." You know things are not good when the Kconfig help text suggests you make a cron job doing a ping every minute. Hardware that old and crippled is simply not going to be used by anyone in a time where 10 year old 100Mbit PCI cards (that are still functional) are largely give-away items. Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- drivers/net/Space.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/Space.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/Space.c b/drivers/net/Space.c index c6e51943caaf..64cd86efab96 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Space.c +++ b/drivers/net/Space.c @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ extern struct net_device *fmv18x_probe(int unit); extern struct net_device *eth16i_probe(int unit); extern struct net_device *i82596_probe(int unit); extern struct net_device *ewrk3_probe(int unit); -extern struct net_device *el1_probe(int unit); extern struct net_device *el16_probe(int unit); extern struct net_device *elplus_probe(int unit); extern struct net_device *e2100_probe(int unit); @@ -168,9 +167,6 @@ static struct devprobe2 isa_probes[] __initdata = { #if defined(CONFIG_MVME16x_NET) || defined(CONFIG_BVME6000_NET) /* Intel I82596 */ {i82596_probe, 0}, #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_EL1 /* 3c501 */ - {el1_probe, 0}, -#endif #ifdef CONFIG_EL16 /* 3c507 */ {el16_probe, 0}, #endif -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b