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Aswin Karuvally 6cccb3bb05 s390/net: Remove LCS driver
The original Open Systems Adapter (OSA) was introduced by IBM in the
mid-90s. These were then superseded by OSA-Express in 1999 which used
Queued Direct IO to greatly improve throughput. The newer cards
retained the older, slower non-QDIO (OSE) modes for compatibility with
older systems. In Linux, the lcs driver was responsible for cards
operating in the older OSE mode and the qeth driver was introduced to
allow the OSA-Express cards to operate in the newer QDIO (OSD) mode.

For an S390 machine from 1998 or later, there is no reason to use the
OSE mode and lcs driver as all OSA cards since 1999 provide the faster
OSD mode. As a result, it's been years since we have heard of a
customer configuration involving the lcs driver.

This patch removes the lcs driver. The technology it supports has been
obsolete for past 25+ years and is irrelevant for current use cases.

Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aswin Karuvally <aswin@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204103135.1619097-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-02-05 18:19:01 -08:00
arch s390/net: Remove LCS driver 2025-02-05 18:19:01 -08:00
block Driver core and debugfs updates 2025-01-28 12:25:12 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Documentation s390/net: Remove LCS driver 2025-02-05 18:19:01 -08:00
drivers s390/net: Remove LCS driver 2025-02-05 18:19:01 -08:00
fs Provide stable parent and name to ->d_revalidate() instances 2025-01-30 09:13:35 -08:00
include net-sysfs: move queue attribute groups outside the default groups 2025-02-05 17:49:08 -08:00
init treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
io_uring treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel Summary: 2025-01-29 10:35:40 -08:00
lib CRC fixes for 6.14 2025-01-29 10:50:28 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm Summary: 2025-01-29 10:35:40 -08:00
net bridge: mdb: Allow replace of a host-joined group 2025-02-05 17:50:03 -08:00
rust Driver core and debugfs updates 2025-01-28 12:25:12 -08:00
samples Driver core and debugfs updates 2025-01-28 12:25:12 -08:00
scripts Char/Misc/IIO driver updates for 6.14-rc1 2025-01-27 16:51:51 -08:00
security treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
sound Driver core and debugfs updates 2025-01-28 12:25:12 -08:00
tools bridge: mdb: Allow replace of a host-joined group 2025-02-05 17:50:03 -08:00
usr kbuild: Drop support for include/asm-<arch> in headers_check.pl 2024-12-21 11:43:17 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-mirror-page-tables' into HEAD 2025-01-20 07:15:58 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in 2025-01-26 17:50:53 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in 2025-01-26 17:50:53 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS First batch of fixes for 6.14. Nothing really stands out, 2025-01-30 12:24:20 -08:00
Makefile Networking changes for 6.14. 2025-01-22 08:28:57 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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