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net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver
This driver can no longer be built since support for IBM Cell Blades was removed, in particular PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE. Remove the driver and the documentation. Remove the MAINTAINERS entry, and add Ishizaki and Geoff to CREDITS. Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-24-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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CREDITS

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D: various lockdep annotations, autofs and other random bugfixes
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S: Prague, Czech Republic
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N: Ishizaki Kou
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E: kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp
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D: Spidernet driver for PowerPC Cell platforms
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N: Gene Kozin
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E: 74604.152@compuserve.com
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W: https://www.sangoma.com
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N: Geoff Levand
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E: geoff@infradead.org
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D: Spidernet driver for PowerPC Cell platforms
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N: Phil Lewis
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E: beans@bucket.ualr.edu
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D: Promised to send money if I would put his name in the source tree.

Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/index.rst

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ti/cpsw_switchdev
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ti/am65_nuss_cpsw_switchdev
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ti/tlan
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toshiba/spider_net
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wangxun/txgbe
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wangxun/ngbe
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Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.rst

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MAINTAINERS

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SPIDERNET NETWORK DRIVER for CELL
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M: Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
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M: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
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L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
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S: Maintained
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F: Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net.rst
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F: drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net*
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SPMI SUBSYSTEM
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drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/Kconfig

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the driver automatically distinguishes the models, you can
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safely enable this option even if you have a wireless-less model.
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config SPIDER_NET
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tristate "Spider Gigabit Ethernet driver"
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depends on PCI && PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
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select FW_LOADER
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select SUNGEM_PHY
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help
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This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the
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Cell Processor-Based Blades from IBM.
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config TC35815
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tristate "TOSHIBA TC35815 Ethernet support"
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depends on PCI && MIPS

drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/Makefile

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obj-$(CONFIG_GELIC_NET) += ps3_gelic.o
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gelic_wireless-$(CONFIG_GELIC_WIRELESS) += ps3_gelic_wireless.o
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ps3_gelic-objs += ps3_gelic_net.o $(gelic_wireless-y)
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spidernet-y += spider_net.o spider_net_ethtool.o
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obj-$(CONFIG_SPIDER_NET) += spidernet.o
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obj-$(CONFIG_TC35815) += tc35815.o

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