linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: remove computone driver firmware and documentation

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:30:11 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: remove computone driver firmware and documentation

On 12-07-25 12:42 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the only Computone support left in the
> kernel is in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c. CONFIG_COMPUTONE
> is no longer a valid option. Therefore, remove firmware, documentation,
> and the last vestiges of this driver.

Seems reasonable, as CONFIG_COMPUTONE was deleted in this:

---------
commit 51c9d654c2def97827395a7fbfd0c6f865c26544
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Date:   Wed Jul 6 16:48:28 2011 -0700

    Staging: delete tty drivers
    
    Delete the drivers/staging/tty drivers as no one has wanted to step up
    and maintain and fix them.  This was discussed in commit
    4a6514e6d096716fb7bedf238efaaca877e2a7e8 (tty: move obsolete and broken
    tty drivers to drivers/staging/tty/)
    
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
    Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
    Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
-------

For future reference, the option "--irreversible-delete" to
format-patch is a nice way to avoid sending hundreds of lines
of meaningless binary data in e-mail.

Thanks,
Paul.
--

> 
> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/serial/00-INDEX      |    2 -
>  Documentation/serial/computone.txt |  520 ---------
>  firmware/Makefile                  |    1 -
>  firmware/intelliport2.bin.ihex     | 2147 ------------------------------------
>  4 files changed, 2670 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/serial/computone.txt
>  delete mode 100644 firmware/intelliport2.bin.ihex
> 
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