From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: RFC: drop ISA support in the synlink tty driver? Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:51:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20190212075151.GA7588@kroah.com> References: <20190211132534.29407-1-hch@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190211132534.29407-1-hch@lst.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jiri Slaby , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Greg and Jiri, > > I've been working hard to get rid of the remaining callers the pass a > NULL struct device to the DMA mapping functions and am almost done. > > The only non-trivial driver is the synclink driver, which has legacy > early 90s style ISA support that doesn't use the device model at all. > > In theory we could convert it to an isa_driver, but without testing > that seems rather dangerous. So for now I would suggest that we > remove the ISA support in this driver - if anyone cares enough we > can resurrect it from the git history and convert it to use the driver > model. No objection from me at all, I'll go queue this up now, thanks. greg k-h