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net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers
authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:42:28 +0000 (13:42 -0700)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:21:14 +0000 (12:21 -0700)
commit6deb53595092b1426885f6503d93eedc1e3ece77
tree9b3b387aafc114beea48cef0cfcc431f0d957e10
parentdd8d4bc28ad7252610d8e79c1313a2d1e3499a51
net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers

Remove the ATM protocol modules and PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers
that are no longer in active use.

The ATM core protocol stack, PPPoATM, BR2684, and USB DSL modem
drivers (drivers/usb/atm/) are retained in-tree to maintain PPP
over ATM (PPPoA) and PPPoE-over-BR2684 support for DSL connections.
The Solos ADSL2+ PCI driver is also retained.

Removed ATM protocol modules:
 - net/atm/clip.c - Classical IP over ATM (RFC 2225)
 - net/atm/lec.c - LAN Emulation Client (LANE)
 - net/atm/mpc.c, mpoa_caches.c, mpoa_proc.c - Multi-Protocol Over ATM

Removed PCI/SBUS ATM device drivers (drivers/atm/):
 - adummy, atmtcp - software/testing ATM devices
 - eni - Efficient Networks ENI155P (OC-3, ~1995)
 - fore200e - FORE Systems 200E PCI/SBUS (OC-3, ~1999)
 - he - ForeRunner HE (OC-3/OC-12, ~2000)
 - idt77105 - IDT 77105 25 Mbps ATM PHY
 - idt77252 - IDT 77252 NICStAR II (OC-3, ~2000)
 - iphase - Interphase ATM PCI (OC-3/DS3/E3)
 - lanai - Efficient Networks Speedstream 3010
 - nicstar - IDT 77201 NICStAR (155/25 Mbps, ~1999)
 - suni - PMC S/UNI SONET PHY library

Also clean up references in:
 - net/bridge/ - remove ATM LANE hook (br_fdb_test_addr_hook,
   br_fdb_test_addr)
 - net/core/dev.c - remove br_fdb_test_addr_hook export
 - defconfig files - remove ATM driver config options

The removed code is moved to an out-of-tree module package (mod-orphan).

Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260422041846.2035118-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
55 files changed:
Documentation/.renames.txt
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/atm/fore200e.rst [deleted file]
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/atm/index.rst
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/atm/iphase.rst [deleted file]
MAINTAINERS
arch/arm/configs/ixp4xx_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/gpr_defconfig
arch/mips/configs/mtx1_defconfig
arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
drivers/atm/.gitignore [deleted file]
drivers/atm/Kconfig
drivers/atm/Makefile
drivers/atm/adummy.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/atmtcp.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/eni.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/eni.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/fore200e.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/fore200e.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/he.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/he.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/idt77105.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/idt77105.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/idt77252.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/idt77252.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/idt77252_tables.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/iphase.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/iphase.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/lanai.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/midway.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/nicstar.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/nicstar.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/nicstarmac.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/nicstarmac.copyright [deleted file]
drivers/atm/suni.c [deleted file]
drivers/atm/suni.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/tonga.h [deleted file]
drivers/atm/zeprom.h [deleted file]
include/net/atmclip.h [deleted file]
net/atm/Kconfig
net/atm/Makefile
net/atm/clip.c [deleted file]
net/atm/ioctl.c
net/atm/lec.c [deleted file]
net/atm/lec.h [deleted file]
net/atm/lec_arpc.h [deleted file]
net/atm/mpc.c [deleted file]
net/atm/mpc.h [deleted file]
net/atm/mpoa_caches.c [deleted file]
net/atm/mpoa_caches.h [deleted file]
net/atm/mpoa_proc.c [deleted file]
net/atm/proc.c
net/bridge/br.c
net/bridge/br_fdb.c
net/bridge/br_private.h
net/core/dev.c