On Thu, 05 Nov 2020, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 01:39:36AM -0800, Paul Fulghum wrote: > > > > > > > On Nov 5, 2020, at 1:10 AM, Jiri Slaby <jirisl...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > OK, let the loop alone. I would bet a half a pig that noone is able to > > > test this driver. But one has to write this for someone to raise and > > > admit they are still using it. In fact, there are _4_ google replies to > > > "Microgate Corporation" "SyncLink Multiport Adapter" "lspci". > > > > > > > > The hardware used with synclink.c and synclinkmp.c has not been > manufactured for 15 years and was low volume. The chances of either > driver still being in use is very low. Not even Microgate (me) has > the ability to test either anymore (no hardware). I don’t know the > policy about driver removal, but I think both could be removed > without upsetting anyone. > > > > synclink_gt.c is still in production and the driver still actively used. > > > > If there are no objections to removing the the old drivers > > (synclink.c/synclink_mp.c) I could make a patch to do so tomorrow > > (it is 1:30am here now). Nothing eliminates niggling warnings like > > removing dead code. > > Great, please submit a patch to remove these, I will always take patches > to delete lines :)
Good resolution. I'm happy to do this. Bear with me. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
