fmc: Delete the FMC subsystem

The FMC subsystem was created in 2012 with the ambition to
drive development of drivers for this hardware upstream.

The current implementation has architectural flaws and would
need to be revamped using real hardware to something that can
reuse existing kernel abstractions in the subsystems for e.g.
I2C, FPGA and GPIO.

We have concluded that for the mainline kernel it will be
better to delete the subsystem and start over with a clean
slate when/if an active maintainer steps up.

For details see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/29/534

Suggested-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
Cc: Pat Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov>
Acked-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/fmc-fakedev.txt b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-fakedev.txt
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-fmc-fakedev
-===========
-
-This package includes a software-only device, called fmc-fakedev, which
-is able to register up to 4 mezzanines (by default it registers one).
-Unlike the SPEC driver, which creates an FMC device for each PCI cards
-it manages, this module creates a single instance of its set of
-mezzanines.
-
-It is meant as the simplest possible example of how a driver should be
-written, and it includes a fake EEPROM image (built using the tools
-described in *note FMC Identification::),, which by default is
-replicated for each fake mezzanine.
-
-You can also use this device to verify the match algorithms, by asking
-it to test your own EEPROM image. You can provide the image by means of
-the eeprom= module parameter: the new EEPROM image is loaded, as usual,
-by means of the firmware loader.  This example shows the defaults and a
-custom EEPROM image:
-
-     spusa.root# insmod fmc-fakedev.ko
-     [   99.971247]  fake-fmc-carrier: mezzanine 0
-     [   99.975393]       Manufacturer: fake-vendor
-     [   99.979624]       Product name: fake-design-for-testing
-     spusa.root# rmmod fmc-fakedev
-     spusa.root# insmod fmc-fakedev.ko eeprom=fdelay-eeprom.bin
-     [  121.447464]  fake-fmc-carrier: Mezzanine 0: eeprom "fdelay-eeprom.bin"
-     [  121.462725]  fake-fmc-carrier: mezzanine 0
-     [  121.466858]       Manufacturer: CERN
-     [  121.470477]       Product name: FmcDelay1ns4cha
-     spusa.root# rmmod fmc-fakedev
-
-After loading the device, you can use the write_ee method do modify its
-own internal fake EEPROM: whenever the image is overwritten starting at
-offset 0, the module will unregister and register again the FMC device.
-This is shown in fmc-write-eeprom.txt