Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:43:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] serial: remove netx serial driver |
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:26 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:16 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > The netx platform got removed, so this driver is now > > useless. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > We seem so overlap :) > https://marc.info/?l=linux-serial&m=156377843325488&w=2 > > Anyways, the patches are identical except here: > > > -/* Hilscher netx */ > > +/* Hilscher netx (removed) */ > > #define PORT_NETX 71 > > Is there some reason for keeping the magical number around? > When I looked over the file there seemed to be more "holes" > in the list.
I looked at the same list and though I saw more obsolete entries than holes. The last ones that I saw getting removed were PORT_MFD in 2017 and PORT_V850E_UART in 2008.
It probably doesn't matter as we have precedence for both.
Arnd
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