Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: ttydev tree build failure |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > Update all drivers when making core tty infrastructure changes? > > Thanks! > > I don't have an Amiga with that board, I don't have an obscure VME 68K > board. The changes required at this point would be tricky to verify > without hardware, and the upcoming changes will require significant > changes to all the hardware drivers, which will need someone to actually > maintain the drivers, or to drop them.
IC, testing/maintaining non-trival changes is a different situation.
But it would still be nice to announce such removals/breakings in advance, cfr. Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. At least we knew the old NCR53C9x core was going away, taken with it all drivers depending on it...
Anyone who cares about these drivers (ser_a2232 and vme_scc, perhaps others?)?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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