linux/arch/mips
Ethan Nelson-Moore 794b5e7727 bluetooth: remove all PCMCIA drivers
PCMCIA is almost completely obsolete (the last computers supporting it
natively were from ~2009), and the general consensus [1] seems to be
that support for it should be gradually removed from the kernel.

In 2023, an initial step of removing all the PCMCIA char drivers was
taken in commit 9b12f050c7 ("char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers"),
and that has not been reverted, so it seems logical to continue this
process by removing more low-hanging fruit.

These three Bluetooth drivers have had no meaningful changes since
their status was discussed in 2022 [2], and are unlikely to have any
remaining users. The latest functional change to any of them was a
patch to bluecard_cs to fix LED blinking behavior in 2017. The other
two drivers have not had any meaningful changes made since 2007. Remove
them.

Note that even with these drivers removed, it is still possible to use
other PCMCIA Bluetooth cards that present themselves as a standard
serial port via serial_cs and hciattach while the serial_cs driver is
still present.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y07d7rMvd5++85BJ@owl.dominikbrodowski.net/

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
History 2026-06-11 14:24:38 -04:00
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alchemy Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
ath25 MIPS: Switch to irq_domain_create_*() 2025-05-16 21:06:10 +02:00
ath79 MIPS: ath79: remove obsolete ATH79_DEV_* configs 2023-03-17 10:28:04 +01:00
bcm47xx Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
bcm63xx treewide: rename GPIO set callbacks back to their original names 2025-08-07 10:07:06 +02:00
bmips mips: bmips: setup: make CBR address configurable 2024-06-27 10:44:32 +02:00
boot MIPS: Add Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus evaluation board dts 2026-04-13 15:31:41 +02:00
cavium-octeon Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
cobalt MIPS: Cobalt: Fix missing prototypes 2024-01-22 10:32:21 +01:00
configs bluetooth: remove all PCMCIA drivers 2026-06-11 14:24:38 -04:00
crypto lib/crypto: mips/md5: Migrate optimized code into library 2025-08-26 12:52:28 -04:00
dec serial: zs: Convert to use a platform device 2026-05-22 11:52:34 +02:00
econet mips: dts: Add PCIe to EcoNet EN751221 2026-04-06 14:05:02 +02:00
fw MIPS: arc: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() 2025-08-29 22:34:30 +02:00
generic MIPS: generic: Replace deprecated strcpy() in ocelot_detect() 2025-08-29 22:34:30 +02:00
include ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic 2026-05-21 08:20:58 -04:00
ingenic MIPS: Kconfig: ingenic: Ensure MACH_INGENIC_GENERIC selects all SoCs 2021-06-01 11:44:47 +02:00
jazz MIPS/jazzdma: Provide physical address directly 2025-10-29 10:27:30 +01:00
kernel Support for Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus 2026-04-17 08:53:23 -07:00
kvm KVM generic changes for 7.0 2026-03-11 18:01:55 +01:00
lantiq Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
lib MIPS: Fix the GCC version check for `__multi3' workaround 2026-04-01 21:53:18 +02:00
loongson2ef MIPS: Loongson2ef: Use pcibios_align_resource() to block io range 2026-02-05 10:00:37 +01:00
loongson32 MIPS: loongson32: Switch to generic core 2025-08-29 22:34:31 +02:00
loongson64 Updates for the interrupt chip driver subsystem: 2026-04-14 10:18:10 -07:00
math-emu mips: math-emu: replace deprecated strcpy() in me-debugfs 2025-09-12 11:56:06 +02:00
mm mm.git review status for linus..mm-stable 2026-04-15 12:59:16 -07:00
mobileye MIPS: Add Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus support 2026-04-13 15:31:40 +02:00
mti-malta MIPS: Malta: Fix !EVA SOC-it PCI MMIO 2025-11-11 12:58:49 +01:00
n64 mips: Add N64 machine type 2021-01-22 11:40:00 +01:00
net bpf: Pass bpf_verifier_env to JIT 2026-04-16 07:03:40 -07:00
pci Support for Mobileye EyeQ6Lplus 2026-04-17 08:53:23 -07:00
pic32 irqchip/irq-pic32-evic: Allow driver to be compiled with COMPILE_TEST 2026-02-24 08:15:44 +01:00
power mips: suspend: include linux/suspend.h as needed 2023-12-10 17:21:41 -08:00
ralink mips: ralink: update CPU clock index 2026-04-01 21:51:02 +02:00
rb532 MIPS/mtd: Handle READY GPIO in generic NAND platform data 2026-04-13 15:41:56 +02:00
sgi-ip22 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
sgi-ip27 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
sgi-ip30 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
sgi-ip32 MIPS: sgi-ip32: Replace deprecated strcpy() in plat_mem_setup() 2025-08-29 22:34:30 +02:00
sibyte mips: sibyte: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro 2024-07-23 09:47:40 +02:00
sni MIPS: sni: Replace deprecated strcpy() in sni_console_setup() 2025-08-29 22:34:30 +02:00
tools MIPS: fix typos in comments 2022-05-04 22:22:59 +02:00
txx9 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
vdso MIPS: vdso: Provide getres_time64() for 32-bit ABIs 2026-01-13 14:42:23 +01:00
Kbuild MIPS: Share generic kernel code with other architecture 2024-02-20 13:36:25 +01:00
Kbuild.platforms mips: Add EcoNet MIPS platform support 2025-05-20 08:46:58 +02:00
Kconfig MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2026-03-12 12:23:26 +01:00
Kconfig.debug tracing: Refactor TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT in Kconfig 2021-08-16 11:37:21 -04:00
Makefile checksyscalls: move instance functionality into generic code 2026-04-05 09:21:32 +02:00
Makefile.postlink kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved 2025-03-17 00:29:50 +09:00