Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers

Greg KH
2023-02-22T09:38:08Z

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It
> was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers
> completely. Let's start with these char broken one.
>
> Note that I also removed a UAPI header: include/uapi/linux/cm4000_cs.h.
> I found only coccinelle tests mentioning some ioctl constants from that
> file. But they are not actually used. Anyway, should someone complain,
> we may reintroduce the header (or its parts).
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f41c2765-80e0-48bc-b1e4-8cfd3230fd4a@www.fastmail.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Hyunwoo Kim" <imv4bel@gmail.com>
> Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
> Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---

Nice! I'll queue this up in my tree after 6.3-rc1 is out if no one
objects by then.

thanks,

greg k-h