Re: [PATCH v2] tty: moxa: remove driver.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 08:28:59AM +0800, Crescent Hsieh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 03:35:29PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is a very old driver, and no known hardware is still around for it,
> > and the company says they do not need it anymore, so let's remove it as
> > the LLMs are starting to poke at it and find "interesting" things which
> > will just waste everyone's time given it's not actually used.
> > 
> > So let's drop it.  If someone really needs it, it can come back in the
> > future, in a more "modern" way, as the style here is very old...
> 
> The removal looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Crescent Hsieh <crescentcy.hsieh@moxa.com>

Thanks for the ack.

> With drivers/tty/moxa.c removed, the following device IDs in
> include/linux/pci_ids.h would have no remaining users:
> 
> - PCI_DEVICE_ID_MOXA_CP204J
> - PCI_DEVICE_ID_MOXA_C218
> - PCI_DEVICE_ID_MOXA_C320
> 
> Would it make sense to remove them as part of this patch as well?

I'll remove them as a separate patch.

thanks,

greg k-h