linux/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
Arnd Bergmann f54ec58fee 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>
2020-10-29 19:27:45 +01:00

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The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
=================================================
The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
This initial section contains overall information, including the README
file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
etc.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
README
kernel-parameters
devices
sysctl/index
This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
hw-vuln/index
Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
problems and bugs in particular.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
reporting-bugs
security-bugs
bug-hunting
bug-bisect
tainted-kernels
ramoops
dynamic-debug-howto
init
kdump/index
perf/index
pstore-blk
This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel
ABI will be found here.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
sysfs-rules
The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to
configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
acpi/index
aoe/index
auxdisplay/index
bcache
binderfs
binfmt-misc
blockdev/index
bootconfig
braille-console
btmrvl
cgroup-v1/index
cgroup-v2
cifs/index
clearing-warn-once
cpu-load
cputopology
dell_rbu
device-mapper/index
edid
efi-stub
ext4
nfs/index
gpio/index
highuid
hw_random
initrd
iostats
java
jfs
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
laptops/index
lcd-panel-cgram
ldm
lockup-watchdogs
LSM/index
md
media/index
mm/index
module-signing
mono
namespaces/index
numastat
parport
perf-security
pm/index
pnp
rapidio
ras
rtc
serial-console
svga
sysrq
thunderbolt
ufs
unicode
vga-softcursor
video-output
xfs
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
=======
* :ref:`genindex`