Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:07:09 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isdn: remove spellcaster driver | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:34:09 +0100
> The 'sc' ISDN driver relies on using readl() to access ISA I/O memory. > This has been deprecated and produced warnings since linux-2.3.23, > disabled by default since 2.4.10 and finally removed in 2.6.5. > > I found this because the compiling the driver for ARM produces > a warning: > > In file included from ../drivers/isdn/sc/includes.h:8:0, > from ../drivers/isdn/sc/init.c:13: > ../arch/arm/include/asm/io.h:115:21: note: expected 'const volatile void *' but argument is of type 'long unsigned int' > > It is pretty clear that this driver has not been used for a long time > and there is no point fixing it now, so let's remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > --- > There has been some discussion about removing all the ISA based ISDN > drivers in the past. I'm not trying to restart that discussion at the > moment, and I did not find the same bug in the other drivers, so > let's just remove this one for now.
Applied to net-next, we can resurrect+fix this driver if someone actually uses it.
Thanks Arnd.
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