Re: drivers/char/dz.[ch]: reason for keeping?

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 08:21:14 EST


On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:15:33PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Russell King wrote:
>
> > Since we have drivers/serial/dz.[ch] now merged, is there a reason to
> > keep drivers/char/dz.[ch] around any more? I notice people keep doing
> > cleanups, but this is wasted effort if the driver is superseded by the
> > new drivers/serial/dz.[ch] driver.
>
> drivers/char/dz.[ch] has been verified to work on real hardware, at least
> with 2.4. Can the same be said of drivers/serial/dz.[ch]? If so, then
> the former can be removed from the mainline.

Ralf has verified that it works before he submitted it to Linus, so
I guess that means that it does "work on real hardware".

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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