Re: [PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: remove hub6 multiport support

[Jiri Slaby]

On 16. 10. 26, 14:59, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> hub6 support was added in linux-0.99 and the hardware was already old at
> the time, being discontinued in 1990. The code for it has always been a
> mess since it adds another dimension to the I/O addressing in the driver
> that has leaked into many individual files.
>
> Hugo and Uwe have attempted several times this year alone to isolate
> the hub6 handling into the 8250_hub6.c file, but I feel that none of
> this has been a real improvement over the original standalone loadable
> module support.
>
> Any machine that would have used this ISA card in practice is likely
> 30 to 40 years old, and with i486 support now removed, it is clearly
> safe to just kill this all off. The only bit that has to remain
> is the ioctl interface, to ensure the serial_struct field is always
> zero.
>
> Link: https://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/The_Unix_Archive/Unix_Usenet/comp.unix.sysv386/1990-December/007174.html
> Fixes: a300273c458c ("serial: 8250: hub6: Add cleanup code")
> Fixes: c526404a4a92 ("serial: 8250: Fix corner case for port matching")
> Fixes: 7ab80d1e7243 ("serial: 8250: fix compile error with hub6_match_port() when compiled as a module")
> Fixes: da7b5fd4e17f ("serial: 8250_hub6: add missing include for hub6_match_port()")
> Fixes: 3d406299d882 ("serial: 8250_hub6: add hub6_match_port()")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h          | 15 -------
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c     |  2 -
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hub6.c     | 60 -------------------------
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_platform.c | 11 +----
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c     | 23 ----------
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig         | 15 ++-----
>   drivers/tty/serial/8250/Makefile        |  1 -
>   drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c       |  2 -
>   drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c         |  2 -
>   drivers/tty/serial/imx.c                |  2 -
>   drivers/tty/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c       |  3 +-
>   drivers/tty/serial/sa1100.c             |  2 -
>   drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c        | 18 +++-----
>   drivers/tty/serial/sunsu.c              |  9 ----
>   drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c      |  2 -
>   include/linux/serial_8250.h             |  2 -
>   include/linux/serial_core.h             |  2 -
>   17 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hub6.c

Great, you would have saved me a headache if you had sent these long 
time ago ;).

So I will Ack both, once you repost with the reported issues fixed.

thanks,
--
js
suse labs