From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 532E3346A13; Sun, 3 May 2026 05:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777787040; cv=none; b=P0liO2wTAVWppI+gMPN28iJA3evjGDnMa67CCBExIcO1/D1UgxcI9zLe0K7aHVWYfy/NhWPcYoGVTZhuFoTDASyho/+OGVVcz4gUYjAgM421EXreObbOtyBEZ+RAdnx72oiI8m/FmUcWTlpBoZG+bJ8s1pdxHPNC7PVxo/CISLU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777787040; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ktQFx+wmauplAHJrVf0ni9I6Q0rTlKQem2m0emsUYHQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=jYUz8h2oH5n9CiOdRtPbGJhuVSmd/77SYjDKSP1OZXDJlP0lceV3IEk/IKSSP2hS8xA0qQlX4RFwPh+keCOXtOPjr0SL9Ewz+tw0HdynVPOFodKR5s9i3x1EZXskGU+6cnuRbP+ZZvyiqbZNi9W+Hqch19kKampimLQPjAjrY9E= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=1gpEkbVw; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="1gpEkbVw" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EB1FC2BCB4; Sun, 3 May 2026 05:43:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1777787039; bh=ktQFx+wmauplAHJrVf0ni9I6Q0rTlKQem2m0emsUYHQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=1gpEkbVwZu5/SY1Et6mDcSa3zISYgnrl0ejJM+f7e8sgngWc2G0egYZ4Qjl1kDS8S DEWJm/mdrOtGg7YJs5TnIGdb7gn+vPQSmgZoDZYDWgTS2hJVpiWIMLXM5amr9XPghV Y5v/2I8yJyeLgRio6GXEPMUQZAsI1hxEXgrPnKe4= Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 07:43:57 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Ethan Nelson-Moore Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Jiri Slaby , Miguel Ojeda , Boqun Feng , Gary Guo , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Roy Baron , Benno Lossin , Andreas Hindborg , Alice Ryhl , Trevor Gross , Danilo Krummrich , Bagas Sanjaya , Haren Myneni , Eric Biggers , Qingfang Deng , Julian Braha Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty: synclink_gt: remove broken driver Message-ID: <2026050340-kilogram-prissy-a833@gregkh> References: <20260503030801.14080-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260503030801.14080-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> On Sat, May 02, 2026 at 08:07:38PM -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: > The synclink_gt driver was marked as broken in commit 426263d5fb40 > ("tty: synclink_gt: mark as BROKEN") in July 2023 because it had severe > structural problems and there had been no evidence of users since 2016. > Since then, no meaningful improvements have been made to the driver, > and it is unlikely that will ever happen due to the lack of interest. > Drop the driver and references to it in comments and documentation. > Retain include/uapi/linux/synclink.h to avoid breaking userspace > software. > > Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore > --- > Changes from v1: > - Retain UAPI header - the linux-raw-sys Rust crate generates bindings > for it [1] Then that means someone uses it somewhere. Don't generate bindings for something that will break because it is no longer in the tree :( If no one does use it, then please get that project to fix their code so that we don't break their build. thanks, greg k-h