History log of /linux-master/Documentation/networking/kapi.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# f54ec58f 27-Oct-2020 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

wimax: move out to staging

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 <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


# 4069a572 22-Sep-2020 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

net: phy: Document core PHY structures

Add kerneldoc for the core PHY data structures, a few inline functions
and exported functions which are not already documented.

v2
Typos
g/phy/PHY/s

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 0a6fcd3f 01-Dec-2017 Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

sfp: add documentation for kernel APIs

Add kernel-doc documentation for sfp kernel APIs, and link it into the
networking kapi documentation under "Network device support".

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 8796c892 01-Dec-2017 Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

phylink: add documentation for kernel APIs

Add kernel-doc documentation for phylink kernel APIs, and link it into
the networking kapi documentation under "Network device support".

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 05e0f3b9 12-May-2017 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>

docs-rst: convert networking book to ReST

Use pandoc to convert documentation to ReST by calling
Documentation/sphinx/tmplcvt script.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>