Commit 6d979850 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann

isdn: move capi drivers to staging

I tried to find any indication of whether the capi drivers are still in
use, and have not found anything from a long time ago.

With public ISDN networks almost completely shut down over the past 12
months, there is very little you can actually do with this hardware. The
main remaining use case would be to connect ISDN voice phones to an
in-house installation with Asterisk or LCR, but anyone trying this in
turn seems to be using either the mISDN driver stack, or out-of-tree
drivers from the hardware vendors.

I may of course have missed something, so I would suggest moving these
three drivers (avm, hysdn, gigaset) into drivers/staging/ just in case
someone still uses them.

If nobody complains, we can remove them entirely in six months, or
otherwise move the core code and any drivers that are still needed back
into drivers/isdn.

As Paul Bolle notes, he is still testing the gigaset driver as long as
he can, but the Dutch ISDN network will be shut down in September 2019,
which puts an end to that.

Marcel Holtmann still maintains the Bluetooth CMTP profile and wants to
keep that alive, so the actual CAPI subsystem code remains in place for
now, after all other drivers are gone, CMTP and CAPI can be merged into
a single driver directory.

Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
parent 99c2aa15
......@@ -6679,9 +6679,7 @@ M: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
L: gigaset307x-common@lists.sourceforge.net
W: http://gigaset307x.sourceforge.net/
S: Odd Fixes
F: Documentation/isdn/README.gigaset
F: drivers/isdn/gigaset/
F: include/uapi/linux/gigaset_dev.h
F: drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/
GNSS SUBSYSTEM
M: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
......@@ -8362,15 +8360,25 @@ S: Supported
W: http://www.linux-iscsi.org
F: drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert
ISDN SUBSYSTEM
ISDN/mISDN SUBSYSTEM
M: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
L: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de (subscribers-only)
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
W: http://www.isdn4linux.de
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kkeil/isdn-2.6.git
S: Maintained
F: drivers/isdn/mISDN
F: drivers/isdn/hardware
ISDN/CAPI SUBSYSTEM
M: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
L: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de (subscribers-only)
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
W: http://www.isdn4linux.de
S: Odd Fixes
F: Documentation/isdn/
F: drivers/isdn/
F: drivers/isdn/capi/
F: drivers/staging/isdn/
F: net/bluetooth/cmtp/
F: include/linux/isdn/
F: include/uapi/linux/isdn/
......
......@@ -21,33 +21,8 @@ menuconfig ISDN
if ISDN
menuconfig ISDN_CAPI
tristate "CAPI 2.0 subsystem"
help
This provides CAPI (the Common ISDN Application Programming
Interface) Version 2.0, a standard making it easy for programs to
access ISDN hardware in a device independent way. (For details see
<http://www.capi.org/>.) CAPI supports making and accepting voice
and data connections, controlling call options and protocols,
as well as ISDN supplementary services like call forwarding or
three-party conferences (if supported by the specific hardware
driver).
Select this option and the appropriate hardware driver below if
you have an ISDN adapter supported by the CAPI subsystem.
if ISDN_CAPI
source "drivers/isdn/capi/Kconfig"
source "drivers/isdn/hardware/Kconfig"
endif # ISDN_CAPI
source "drivers/isdn/gigaset/Kconfig"
source "drivers/isdn/hysdn/Kconfig"
source "drivers/isdn/mISDN/Kconfig"
endif # ISDN
......@@ -6,5 +6,3 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI) += capi/
obj-$(CONFIG_MISDN) += mISDN/
obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN) += hardware/
obj-$(CONFIG_HYSDN) += hysdn/
obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_GIGASET) += gigaset/
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menuconfig ISDN_CAPI
tristate "CAPI 2.0 subsystem"
help
This provides CAPI (the Common ISDN Application Programming
Interface) Version 2.0, a standard making it easy for programs to
access ISDN hardware in a device independent way. (For details see
<http://www.capi.org/>.) CAPI supports making and accepting voice
and data connections, controlling call options and protocols,
as well as ISDN supplementary services like call forwarding or
three-party conferences (if supported by the specific hardware
driver).
This subsystem requires a hardware specific driver.
See CONFIG_BT_CMTP for the last remaining regular driver
in the kernel that uses the CAPI subsystem.
if ISDN_CAPI
config CAPI_TRACE
bool "CAPI trace support"
default y
......@@ -34,3 +52,5 @@ config ISDN_CAPI_CAPIDRV_VERBOSE
If you say Y here, the capidrv interface will give verbose reasons
for disconnecting. This will increase the size of the kernel by 7 KB.
If unsure, say N.
endif
......@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIDRV) += capidrv.o
kernelcapi-y := kcapi.o capiutil.o capilib.o
kernelcapi-$(CONFIG_PROC_FS) += kcapi_proc.o
ccflags-y += -I$(srctree)/$(src)/../include -I$(srctree)/$(src)/../include/uapi
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
#
# ISDN hardware drivers
#
comment "CAPI hardware drivers"
source "drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/Kconfig"
......@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@
# Object files in subdirectories
obj-$(CONFIG_CAPI_AVM) += avm/
obj-$(CONFIG_MISDN) += mISDN/
......@@ -118,4 +118,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/fieldbus/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/kpc2000/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/isdn/Kconfig"
endif # STAGING
......@@ -49,3 +49,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_XIL_AXIS_FIFO) += axis-fifo/
obj-$(CONFIG_EROFS_FS) += erofs/
obj-$(CONFIG_FIELDBUS_DEV) += fieldbus/
obj-$(CONFIG_KPC2000) += kpc2000/
obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI) += isdn/
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
menu "ISDN CAPI drivers"
depends on ISDN_CAPI
source "drivers/staging/isdn/avm/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/Kconfig"
source "drivers/staging/isdn/hysdn/Kconfig"
endmenu
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# Makefile for the kernel ISDN subsystem and device drivers.
# Object files in subdirectories
obj-$(CONFIG_CAPI_AVM) += avm/
obj-$(CONFIG_HYSDN) += hysdn/
obj-$(CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_GIGASET) += gigaset/
TODO: Remove in late 2019 unless there are users
I tried to find any indication of whether the capi drivers are
still in use, and have not found anything from a long time ago.
With public ISDN networks almost completely shut down over the past 12
months, there is very little you can actually do with this hardware. The
main remaining use case would be to connect ISDN voice phones to an
in-house installation with Asterisk or LCR, but anyone trying this in
turn seems to be using either the mISDN driver stack, or out-of-tree
drivers from the hardware vendors.
I may of course have missed something, so I would suggest moving
these into drivers/staging/ just in case someone still uses one
of the three remaining in-kernel drivers (avm, hysdn, gigaset).
If nobody complains, we can remove them entirely in six months,
or otherwise move the core code and any drivers that are still
needed back into drivers/isdn.
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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