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

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:12:44 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty/synclink: remove leftover bits of non-PCI card
 support

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:40:25AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 28. 07. 20, 8:20, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:05:36AM +0200, 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
> > 
> > This is in a uapi header, so I didn't dare to touch it.
> 
> Ah, sure. Then OK.
> 
> Just wondering, who would place this into a uapi header?

People didn't realize they were uapi headers a long time ago, when
everything was in the same directory/files :(

thanks,

greg k-h