History log of /linux/Documentation/.renames.txt (Results 1 – 25 of 29)
Revision Date Author Comments
# 0fc8f620 27-Apr-2026 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Getting fixes and updates from v7.1-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# 64edfa65 24-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski:
"Delete some obsolete networking code

Old code like amat

Merge tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski:
"Delete some obsolete networking code

Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core
networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and
noobs try to fix them.

If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse
this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked
about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time
someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many
of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it
go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most
users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow
stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.

We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so
we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code
behind us"

* tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next:
drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver
drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver
drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver
drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver
drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver
drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver
drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver
net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir
net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver
net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP
caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER

show more ...


# 0c22ed0f 23-Apr-2026 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'remove-a-number-of-isa-and-pcmcia-ethernet-drivers'

Andrew Lunn says:

====================
Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers

These old drivers have not been much of

Merge branch 'remove-a-number-of-isa-and-pcmcia-ethernet-drivers'

Andrew Lunn says:

====================
Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers

These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until
recently. Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding
issues, resulting in more work for Maintainers. Fixing these old
drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have users.

These mostly ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet devices, mostly from the last
century, a couple from 2001 or 2002. It seems unlikely they are still
used. However, remove them one patch at a time so they can be brought
back if somebody still has the hardware, runs modern kernels and wants
to take up the roll of driver Maintainer.
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-0-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

show more ...


# a3fb9a5b 22-Apr-2026 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver

The smc91c92 was written by David A Hinds in 1999. It is an PCMCIA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.

Remove the Documentation as w

drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver

The smc91c92 was written by David A Hinds in 1999. It is an PCMCIA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.

Remove the Documentation as well, since it refers to kernel versions
1.2.13 until 1.3.71 and FTP sites which no longer exist.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-8-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

show more ...


# 91f3a27a 22-Apr-2026 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver

The 3c509 was written by Donald Becker between 1993-2000. It is an ISA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <

drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver

The 3c509 was written by Donald Becker between 1993-2000. It is an ISA
device, so unlikely to be used with modern kernels.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v2-1-08a5b59784d5@lunn.ch
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

show more ...


# 6deb5359 20-Apr-2026 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers

Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers
that are no longer in active use.

The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM

net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers

Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers
that are no longer in active use.

The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM, BR2684, and USB DSL modem
drivers (drivers/usb/atm/) are retained in-tree to maintain PPP
over ATM (PPPoA) and PPPoE-over-BR2684 support for DSL connections.
The Solos ADSL2+ PCI driver is also retained.

Removed ATM protocol modules:
- net/atm/clip.c - Classical IP over ATM (RFC 2225)
- net/atm/lec.c - LAN Emulation Client (LANE)
- net/atm/mpc.c, mpoa_caches.c, mpoa_proc.c - Multi-Protocol Over ATM

Removed PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers (drivers/atm/):
- adummy, atmtcp - software/testing ATM devices
- eni - Efficient Networks ENI155P (OC-3, ~1995)
- fore200e - FORE Systems 200E PCI/SBUS (OC-3, ~1999)
- he - ForeRunner HE (OC-3/OC-12, ~2000)
- idt77105 - IDT 77105 25 Mbps ATM PHY
- idt77252 - IDT 77252 NICStAR II (OC-3, ~2000)
- iphase - Interphase ATM PCI (OC-3/DS3/E3)
- lanai - Efficient Networks Speedstream 3010
- nicstar - IDT 77201 NICStAR (155/25 Mbps, ~1999)
- suni - PMC S/UNI SONET PHY library

Also clean up references in:
- net/bridge/ - remove ATM LANE hook (br_fdb_test_addr_hook,
br_fdb_test_addr)
- net/core/dev.c - remove br_fdb_test_addr_hook export
- defconfig files - remove ATM driver config options

The removed code is moved to an out-of-tree module package (mod-orphan).

Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

show more ...


# dd8d4bc2 21-Apr-2026 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This

net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem

Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
to protect our sanity.

The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.

Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

show more ...


# 3e9e952b 20-Apr-2026 Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Merge branch 'for-7.1-printf-kunit-build' into for-linus


# f4b369c6 20-Apr-2026 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 7.1 merge window.


# 0421ccdf 12-Mar-2026 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v7.0-rc3' into next

Sync up with the mainline to brig up the latest changes, specifically
changes to ALPS driver.


# 42d3b66d 12-Mar-2026 Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 7.00-rc3. Important ahead GPU SVM merging THP
support.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>


# f09812b8 25-Feb-2026 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync with v7.0-rc1 which contains a few treewide changes affecting i915.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>


# 8b85987d 23-Feb-2026 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next window

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# c17ee635 23-Feb-2026 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

7.0-rc1 was just released, let's merge it to kick the new release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# 37a93dd5 12-Feb-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:

- A significant effort all around the stac

Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"Core & protocols:

- A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
the actual inlined helper.

- Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
basis.

- Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
by up to ~30%.

- Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
the HBH hint.

- Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

- Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
a single global rate on the interface.

- Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
that are safer in crash scenarios.

- Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

- Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

- Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

- Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

- Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

- Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
across different network namespaces.

- Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
optimizations.

- Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
back online.

Driver API:

- Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
DPLL device via netlink.

- Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
media ports over a single MAC.

- Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
signaling.

- Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

Device drivers:

- Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

- Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
controller.

- Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

- Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

- Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

- Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
- bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
and NVRAM defragmentation
- bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
used H/W resources
- add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
- add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
- use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
leading to 12% RX tput improvement
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
layouts
- ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
- Meta (fbnic):
- adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

- Ethernet virtual:
- geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- some code refactoring and cleanups
- RealTek (r8169):
- add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
- add dash and LTR support
- Airoha:
- AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
- Freescale (fec):
- add XDP zero-copy support
- Thunderbolt:
- add get link setting support to allow bonding
- Renesas:
- add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

- Ethernet switches:
- Maxlinear:
- support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
- add support for Intel GSW150
- Motorcomm (yt921x):
- add DCB/QoS support
- TI:
- icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
framework

- Ethernet PHYs:
- Realtek:
- enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
- simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
- Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

- CAN:
- move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
metadata access more robust

- CAN drivers:
- rcar_canfd:
- add support for FD-only mode
- add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
- sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

- WiFi:
- implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
- split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
- additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
- better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
- initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

- WiFi drivers:
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
- ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
- ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
- iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
- RealTek (rtw89):
- preparations for RTL8922DE support

- Bluetooth:
- implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
- set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

- Bluetooth drivers:
- btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
- btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
tcp: populate inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6
ipv6: use inet->cork.fl.u.ip6 and np->final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
ipv6: use np->final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
...

show more ...


# aba0138e 26-Jan-2026 Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>

net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver

The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10
Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been
manufactured in

net: ethernet: neterion: s2io: remove unused driver

The s2io driver supports Exar (formerly Neterion and S2io) PCI-X 10
Gigabit Ethernet cards. Hardware supporting PCI-X has not been
manufactured in years. On x86, it was quickly replaced by PCIe. While
it stuck around longer on POWER hardware, the last POWER hardware to
support it was POWER7, which is not supported by ppc64le Linux
distributions. The last supported mainstream ppc64 Linux distribution
was RHEL 7; while it is still supported under ELS, ELS is only
available for x86 and IBM Z. It is possible to use many PCI-X cards in
standard PCI slots (which are still available on new motherboards), but
it does not make sense to do so for 10 Gigabit Ethernet because the
maximum bandwidth of standard PCI is only 1067 Mbps. It is therefore
highly unlikely that this driver is still being used. Remove the
driver, and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file (restoring
credit for the vxge driver, which was removed in commit f05643a0f60b
("eth: remove neterion/vxge").

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260126031352.22997-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

show more ...


# a4a508df 13-Dec-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.18' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the latest APIs.


# 2ace5271 21-Nov-2025 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Merge branch 'objtool/core'

Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>


# f39b6c46 18-Nov-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.18-rc6' into for-linus

Sync up with the mainline to bring in definition of
INPUT_PROP_HAPTIC_TOUCHPAD.


# cb9f145f 01-Nov-2025 Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next-robclark

Back-merge drm-next to get caught up.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>


# ec2e0fb0 16-Oct-2025 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.18

A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a f

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v6.18-rc1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v6.18

A moderately large collection of driver specific fixes, plus a few new
quirks and device IDs. The NAU8821 changes are a little large but more
in mechanical ways than in ways that are complex.

show more ...


# 82ee5025 14-Oct-2025 Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Backmerging to bring in 6.18-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>


# 48a71076 14-Oct-2025 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Updating drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.18-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# 2acee98f 14-Oct-2025 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync to v6.18-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>


# 4f38da1f 13-Oct-2025 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

spi: Merge up v6.18-rc1

Ensure my CI has a sensible baseline.


12