[PATCH] net: remove sb1000 cable modem driver

[Paolo Abeni]

On 3/12/25 9:51 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> This one is hilariously outdated, it provided a faster downlink over
> TV cable for users of analog modems in the 1990s, through an ISA card.
> 
> The web page for the userspace tools has been broken for 25 years, and
> the driver has only ever seen mechanical updates.
> 
> Link: http://web.archive.org/web/20000611165545/http://home.adelphia.net:80/~siglercm/sb1000.html
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>  .../networking/device_drivers/cable/index.rst |   18 -
>  .../device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst           |  222 ----
>  .../networking/device_drivers/index.rst       |    1 -
>  arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig         |    1 -
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_pnp.c                       |    2 -
>  drivers/net/Kconfig                           |   24 -
>  drivers/net/Makefile                          |    1 -
>  drivers/net/sb1000.c                          | 1179 -----------------
>  include/uapi/linux/if_cablemodem.h            |   23 -
>  9 files changed, 1471 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/index.rst
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/sb1000.c
>  delete mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/if_cablemodem.h

I'll wait a little more before applying this one, to possibly allow
explicit ack for the ACPI and powerPC bits.

/P