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misc: echo: Remove
authorDr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:40:22 +0000 (23:40 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 May 2025 15:57:08 +0000 (17:57 +0200)
commit7f4de1867ef9a787c618e6eb1540b34fef2643ae
treea413370a660f529607a46ae6eec783870eeb9fe4
parent96366bf155ab57580e450d659a9edb3163b717d8
misc: echo: Remove

'echo' is a software echo canceller for telco use, however
it's not used in the kernel at all.

Remove it.

It was moved from staging in 2014 by
commit Fixes: 6e2055a9e56e ("staging: echo: move to drivers/misc/")

Some discussion on lkml:
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z7tZhYET41DAoHVf@gallifrey/
with Arnd and Harald, led to the 'dahdi' package which is part of
Asterisk:

  https://gitea.osmocom.org/retronetworking/dahdi-linux

which can build with the 'echo' module, but is normally configured
with out it.
Dahdi is large, old, only lightly maintained and with a big API, so
there's no hope now of ever merging it into the main kernel tree.

Debian do package Dahdi, and in their package they actually include
a copy of the 'echo' module rather than using the kernel from the
upstream kernel.  So even in the few cases where it is packaged
and built, the kernel copy isn't used.

Signed-off-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250427224022.113678-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/Kconfig
drivers/misc/Makefile
drivers/misc/echo/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/misc/echo/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/misc/echo/echo.c [deleted file]
drivers/misc/echo/echo.h [deleted file]
drivers/misc/echo/fir.h [deleted file]
drivers/misc/echo/oslec.h [deleted file]