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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/net/wimax/op-reset.c, branch master</title>
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<updated>2020-10-29T18:27:45+00:00</updated>
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<title>wimax: move out to staging</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T18:27:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
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<published>2020-10-27T20:12:12+00:00</published>
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There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these
have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether.
As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining
networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly
run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack.

NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
www.linuxwimax.org
site had already shut down earlier.

WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks
("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old
Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the
only driver using the kernel's wimax stack.

Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header
files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets
to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order
to make it possible to port patches across the move.

Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing
list and website.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 268</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:30:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-29T14:12:42+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not write to the free
  software foundation inc 51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma
  02110 1301 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 46 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141334.135501091@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()</title>
<updated>2014-10-08T00:28:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-07T20:12:03+00:00</published>
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Use current logging functions and add module name prefix.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wimax: use genl_register_family_with_ops()</title>
<updated>2013-11-14T22:10:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-14T16:14:42+00:00</published>
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This simplifies the code since there's no longer a need to
have error handling in the registration.

Unfortunately it means more extern function declarations are
needed, but the overall goal would seem to justify this.

Due to the removal of duplication in the netlink policies,
this reduces the size of wimax by almost 1k.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-15T15:47:34+00:00</published>
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These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>wimax: remove unneeded variable</title>
<updated>2010-03-24T20:34:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>error27@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T01:56:03+00:00</published>
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We never actually use "dev" so I removed it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>const: struct nla_policy</title>
<updated>2010-02-18T22:30:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-18T08:14:31+00:00</published>
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Make remaining netlink policies as const.
Fixup coding style where needed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place</title>
<updated>2009-12-04T14:39:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>André Goddard Rosa</name>
<email>andre.goddard@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-14T15:09:05+00:00</published>
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That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa &lt;andre.goddard@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wimax: basic API: kernel/user messaging, rfkill and reset</title>
<updated>2009-01-07T18:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Inaky Perez-Gonzalez</name>
<email>inaky@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-21T00:57:38+00:00</published>
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Implements the three basic operations provided by the stack's control
interface to WiMAX devices:

- Messaging channel between user space and driver/device

  This implements a direct communication channel between user space
  and the driver/device, by which free form messages can be sent back
  and forth.

  This is intended for device-specific features, vendor quirks, etc.

- RF-kill framework integration

  Provide most of the RF-Kill integration for WiMAX drivers so that
  all device drivers have to do is after wimax_dev_add() is call
  wimax_report_rfkill_{hw,sw}() to update initial state and then every
  time it changes.

  Provides wimax_rfkill() for the kernel to call to set software
  RF-Kill status and/or query current hardware and software switch
  status.

  Exports wimax_rfkill() over generic netlink to user space.

- Reset a WiMAX device

  Provides wimax_reset() for the kernel to reset a wimax device as
  needed and exports it over generic netlink to user space.

This API is clearly limited, as it still provides no way to do the
basic scan, connect and disconnect in a hardware independent way.  The
WiMAX case is more complex than WiFi due to the way networks are
discovered and provisioned.

The next developments are to add the basic operations so they can be
offerent by different drivers. However, we'd like to get more vendors
to jump in and provide feedback of how the user/kernel API/abstraction
layer should be.

The user space code for the i2400m, as of now, uses the messaging
channel, but that will change as the API evolves.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez &lt;inaky@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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