drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers.
authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Sun, 6 Jan 2013 01:23:12 +0000 (20:23 -0500)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:24:26 +0000 (10:24 -0500)
commitbca94cffabf5c9f2399da34eab00bd534bf3735b
tree42ef1d4288e2c8656f2a66751b50ba8cfe78b947
parent483f777266f5da205459c290994bd3cda5f1f6bc
drivers/net: delete 8390 based EISA drivers.

The NS8390 chip was essentially the 1st widespread PC ethernet
chip, starting its life on 8 bit ISA cards in the late 1980s.
Even with better technologies available (bus mastering etc)
the 8390 managed to get used on a few rare EISA cards in the
early to mid 1990s.

The EISA bus in the x86 world was largely confined to systems
ranging from 486 to 586 (essentially 200MHz or lower, and less
than 100MB RAM) -- i.e. machines unlikely to be still in service,
and even less likely to be running a 3.9+ kernel.

On top of that, only one of the five really ever was considered
non-experimental; the smc-ultra32 was the one -- since it was
largely just an EISA version of the popular smc-ultra ISA card.
All the others had such a tiny user base that they simply never
could be considered anything more than experimental.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Kconfig
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/Makefile
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ac3200.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/es3210.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lne390.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne3210.c [deleted file]
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra32.c [deleted file]