Re: RFC: drop ISA support in the synlink tty driver?

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Greg and Jiri,
> 
> I've been working hard to get rid of the remaining callers the pass a
> NULL struct device to the DMA mapping functions and am almost done.
> 
> The only non-trivial driver is the synclink driver, which has legacy
> early 90s style ISA support that doesn't use the device model at all.
> 
> In theory we could convert it to an isa_driver, but without testing
> that seems rather dangerous.  So for now I would suggest that we
> remove the ISA support in this driver - if anyone cares enough we
> can resurrect it from the git history and convert it to use the driver
> model.

No objection from me at all, I'll go queue this up now, thanks.

greg k-h



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