From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263177AbTEMGKt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 02:10:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263200AbTEMGKt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 02:10:49 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:58815 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263177AbTEMGKr (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 02:10:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 07:23:32 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: [RFC][TTY] callout removal Message-ID: <20030513062332.GW10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Folks, it had been quite a few years since callout tty devices had been deprecated. IMO it's time to bury them - the following if ((tty->driver.type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL) && (tty->driver.subtype == SERIAL_TYPE_CALLOUT)) { printk("Warning, %s opened, is a deprecated tty " "callout device\n", tty_name(tty, buf)); in tty_open() had been theres since 2.1.90-pre2. IOW, we had two stable branches since then. Quite a few things in tty code and related data structures exist only because of these beasts and I'd rather get rid of them. If nobody has serious objections I'll submit patches removing that stuff, so if you _do_ have a reason to keep callouts around, yell now.