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Paul Gortmaker a786a7c0ad wanrouter: completely decouple obsolete code from kernel. 
The original suggestion to delete wanrouter started earlier
with the mainline commit f0d1b3c2bc
("net/wanrouter: Deprecate and schedule for removal") in May 2012.

More importantly, Dan Carpenter found[1] that the driver had a
fundamental breakage introduced back in 2008, with commit
7be6065b39 ("netdevice wanrouter: Convert directly reference of
netdev->priv").  So we know with certainty that the code hasn't been
used by anyone willing to at least take the effort to send an e-mail
report of breakage for at least 4 years.

This commit does a decouple of the wanrouter subsystem, by going
after the Makefile/Kconfig and similar files, so that these mainline
files that we are keeping do not have the big wanrouter file/driver
deletion commit tied into their history.

Once this commit is in place, we then can remove the obsolete cyclomx
drivers and similar that have a dependency on CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER_DRIVERS.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg218670.html

Originally-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
History 2013-01-31 19:20:33 -05:00
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00-INDEX Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree. 2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
cdrom.txt cdrom: update ioctl documentation 2008-09-27 19:32:17 +02:00
hdio.txt Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
ioctl-decoding.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
ioctl-number.txt wanrouter: completely decouple obsolete code from kernel. 2013-01-31 19:20:33 -05:00