From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: drop ISA support in the synlink tty driver?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:51:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190212075151.GA7588@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190211132534.29407-1-hch@lst.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-12 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-11 13:25 RFC: drop ISA support in the synlink tty driver? Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-11 13:25 ` [PATCH] tty/synclink: remove ISA support Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-12 7:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-02-12 8:08 ` RFC: drop ISA support in the synlink tty driver? Jiri Slaby
2019-02-12 8:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-12 8:40 ` Jiri Slaby
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