linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty/synclink: remove leftover bits of non-PCI card support

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Message-ID: <b286c9f4-f501-96a8-8e2d-52f46b53ab1a@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:09:36 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty/synclink: remove leftover bits of non-PCI card
 support

On 28. 07. 20, 8:05, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 27. 07. 20, 15:05, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Since commit 1355cba9c3ba ("tty/synclink: remove ISA support"), the
>> synlink driver only supports PCI card.  Remove any leftover dead code
>> to support other cards.
> 
> So now you can remove also the defines and bus_type completely:
> $ git grep -E 'MGSL_BUS_TYPE_(E?ISA|PCI)'
> drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c:              info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;
> drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c:               info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;
> include/uapi/linux/synclink.h:#define MGSL_BUS_TYPE_ISA 1
> include/uapi/linux/synclink.h:#define MGSL_BUS_TYPE_EISA        2
> include/uapi/linux/synclink.h:#define MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI 5
> 
> $ git grep -w bus_type drivers/tty/synclink*
> drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c:      unsigned int bus_type;
> drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c:              info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;
> drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c:       unsigned int bus_type;
> /* expansion bus type (ISA,EISA,PCI) */
> drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c:               info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;

And also MAX_ISA_DEVICES and MAX_PCI_DEVICES are (transitively) unused.

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