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

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

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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