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SubjectRe: can we drop the comedi serial2002 drivers from staging?
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As far as I can tell there has been no targeted work on the driver
> since merging it at all, and since 2014 even the comedi-wide
> cleanups stopped, laving just drive by tree wide changes since.
>
> At the same time the driver badly abuses the tty layer and is one
> of only two major abusers of the poll code for in-kernel waits.

Yeah, it's an ugly driver. It should be rewritten to use the new serdev
api instead of trying to open a tty device node from within the kernel.

I don't object to dropping it. Ian and Hartley, do you know of any
users of this driver anymore?

thanks,

greg k-h

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