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    net: wan: Delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers · f7365919
    Xie He authored
    The DLCI driver (dlci.c) implements the Frame Relay protocol. However,
    we already have another newer and better implementation of Frame Relay
    provided by the HDLC_FR driver (hdlc_fr.c).
    
    The DLCI driver's implementation of Frame Relay is used by only one
    hardware driver in the kernel - the SDLA driver (sdla.c).
    
    The SDLA driver provides Frame Relay support for the Sangoma S50x devices.
    However, the vendor provides their own driver (along with their own
    multi-WAN-protocol implementations including Frame Relay), called WANPIPE.
    I believe most users of the hardware would use the vendor-provided WANPIPE
    driver instead.
    
    (The WANPIPE driver was even once in the kernel, but was deleted in
    commit 8db60bcf ("[WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma
    drivers.") because the vendor no longer updated the in-kernel WANPIPE
    driver.)
    
    Cc: Mike McLagan <mike.mclagan@linux.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201114150921.685594-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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