isdn: remove isdn4linux

With all isdn4linux hardware drivers gone, this is only a wrapper around
CAPI to support old user space. However, from looking at the mailing
list, it seems that the last time anyone asked about it was in 2014,
when the upgrade from a linux-2.4 installation failed, and mISDN was
suggested as a replacement.

The largest public ISDN network (Deutsche Telekom) was supposed to be
shut down 2018, which must have drastically reduced the number of legacy
installations.

When we last discussed removing i4l in 2016, Karsten Keil suggested
revisiting this in 2018. I guess this is overdue.

Link: http://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2014-October/006165.html
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8484861/#17900371
Link: https://listserv.isdn4linux.de/pipermail/isdn4linux/2019-April/thread.html
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.hfc-pci b/Documentation/isdn/README.hfc-pci
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-The driver for the HFC-PCI and HFC-PCI-A chips from CCD may be used
-for many OEM cards using this chips.
-Additionally the driver has a special feature which makes it possible
-to read the echo-channel of the isdn bus. So all frames in both directions
-may be logged.
-When the echo logging feature is used the number of available B-channels
-for a HFC-PCI card is reduced to 1. Of course this is only relevant to
-the card, not to the isdn line.
-To activate the echo mode the following ioctls must be entered:
-
-hisaxctrl <driver/cardname> 10 1
-
-This reduces the available channels to 1. There must not be open connections
-through this card when entering the command.
-And then:
-
-hisaxctrl <driver/cardname> 12 1
-
-This enables the echo mode. If Hex logging is activated the isdnctrlx 
-devices show a output with a line beginning of HEX: for the providers
-exchange and ECHO: for isdn devices sending to the provider.
-
-If more than one HFC-PCI cards are installed, a specific card may be selected
-at the hisax module load command line. Supply the load command with the desired
-IO-address of the desired card. 
-Example:
-There tree cards installed in your machine at IO-base addresses 0xd000, 0xd400 
-and 0xdc00
-If you want to use the card at 0xd400 standalone you should supply the insmod
-or depmod with type=35 io=0xd400.
-If you want to use all three cards, but the order needs to be at 0xdc00,0xd400,
-0xd000 you may give the parameters type=35,35,35 io=0xdc00,0xd400,0xd00 
-Then the desired card will be the initialised in the desired order.
-If the io parameter is used the io addresses of all used cards should be 
-supplied else the parameter is assumed 0 and a auto search for a free card is
-invoked which may not give the wanted result. 
-
-Comments and reports to werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@isdn-development.de
-
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