[PATCH 0/2] tty: Remove obsolete drivers

[PATCH 0/2] tty: Remove obsolete drivers

[Lee Jones]

As per the vendor's request.

Lee Jones (2):
  tty: Remove redundant synclink driver
  tty: Remove redundant synclinkmp driver

 arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig |    2 -
 drivers/tty/Kconfig                   |   27 -
 drivers/tty/Makefile                  |    2 -
 drivers/tty/synclink.c                | 7899 -------------------------
 drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c              | 5580 -----------------
 5 files changed, 13510 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/synclink.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] tty: Remove obsolete drivers

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi,

Le 05/11/2020 à 13:33, Lee Jones a écrit :
> As per the vendor's request.

Is the vendor in copy of the patch ?

What about the other synclink adapters, namely the synclink_gt ? And the synclink_cs in the 
drivers/char/pcmcia/ ?

Christophe

> 
> Lee Jones (2):
>    tty: Remove redundant synclink driver
>    tty: Remove redundant synclinkmp driver
> 
>   arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig |    2 -
>   drivers/tty/Kconfig                   |   27 -
>   drivers/tty/Makefile                  |    2 -
>   drivers/tty/synclink.c                | 7899 -------------------------
>   drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c              | 5580 -----------------
>   5 files changed, 13510 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/synclink.c
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> 

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Re: [PATCH 0/2] tty: Remove obsolete drivers

[Lee Jones]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2020, Christophe Leroy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Le 05/11/2020 à 13:33, Lee Jones a écrit :
> > As per the vendor's request.
> 
> Is the vendor in copy of the patch ?

Not directly.  Only interested parties as indicated by
`get_maintainer.pl` were included.  My assumption is that he'd
pick this set up in the same manner he picked up the last one
(filters?).

> What about the other synclink adapters, namely the synclink_gt ? And the
> synclink_cs in the drivers/char/pcmcia/ ?

Ref *_cs:

  If it wasn't directly mentioned, I've left it in place.

Ref *_gt:

 "synclink_gt.c is still in production and the driver still actively
  used."

> > Lee Jones (2):
> >    tty: Remove redundant synclink driver
> >    tty: Remove redundant synclinkmp driver
> > 
> >   arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig |    2 -
> >   drivers/tty/Kconfig                   |   27 -
> >   drivers/tty/Makefile                  |    2 -
> >   drivers/tty/synclink.c                | 7899 -------------------------
> >   drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c              | 5580 -----------------
> >   5 files changed, 13510 deletions(-)
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/synclink.c
> >   delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c
> > 
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > 

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Re: [PATCH 0/2] tty: Remove obsolete drivers

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:33:55PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> As per the vendor's request.
> 
> Lee Jones (2):
>   tty: Remove redundant synclink driver
>   tty: Remove redundant synclinkmp driver

Hi Lee

What exactly do you mean by redundant? That some other driver can be
used? Or that nobody uses the hardware any more? I know of one
deployed system which has some form of synclink card in use, but i
don't know which card in particular.

      Andrew

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