On Thu, 30 May 2013, Paul Bolle wrote:
> promcon.o is built if CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE is set. But there's no Kconfig
> symbol PROM_CONSOLE, so promcon.c is unbuildable. Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 0) Untested.
>
> 1) There used to be a Kconfig symbol PROM_CONSOLE. But it was SPARC
> specific and it was removed in v2.6.32, see commit 09d3f3f0e0 ("sparc:
> Kill PROM console driver.").
>
> 2) Actually, it seems that it has never been possible to set
> PROM_CONSOLE for MIPS ever since this file was added in v2.3.9. I guess
> no-one noticed because (what seems to be) comparable functionality is
> provided in arch/mips/dec/prom/console.c.
Yeah, I think over the years the file mostly served documentation
purposes. Given that we've had (as you also noticed) a working early-boot
console available:
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for this clean-up.
Maciej
