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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add removal schedule of register_serial/unregister_serial to appropriate file

Jivin Russell King lays it down ...
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:23:35PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > +What: register_serial/unregister_serial
> > +When: December 2005
> > +Why: This interface does not allow serial ports to be registered against
> > + a struct device, and as such does not allow correct power management
> > + of such ports. 8250-based ports should use serial8250_register_port
> > + and serial8250_unregister_port instead.
> > +Who: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
>
> Ok, now that this is in, I guess I should arrange for register_serial &
> co to throw a compiler warning. However, this is non-trivial because
> several other drivers declare this function:

...

> drivers/serial/68328serial.c:int register_serial(struct serial_struct *req)
> drivers/serial/68328serial.c:void unregister_serial(int line)

These can go. AFAICT they were never used and I have no idea why they
are there.

Cheers,
Davidm

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