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  Re: [PATCH] serial: Remove 68328 driver One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-04 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] serial: Remove 68328 driver Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> - 2016-01-04 12:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] serial: Remove 68328 driver Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-01-11 19:00 +0100

#1300616 — Re: [PATCH] serial: Remove 68328 driver

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:03:50 +1000
Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au> wrote:

> If 68328serial.c is removed is there any point keeping the
> architecture support for 68328 platforms?
> 
> The 68328serial.c provides pretty much the only type of console
> that can be used on these devices. They are largely useless
> without this

Probably we should - unless someone wants to stand up and say "actually
I'm using this with current kernels, need it, and I'll maintain it"

Somehow I doubt anyone is.

Alan
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On 04/01/16 20:30, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:03:50 +1000
> Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> If 68328serial.c is removed is there any point keeping the
>> architecture support for 68328 platforms?
>>
>> The 68328serial.c provides pretty much the only type of console
>> that can be used on these devices. They are largely useless
>> without this
>
> Probably we should - unless someone wants to stand up and say "actually
> I'm using this with current kernels, need it, and I'll maintain it"
>
> Somehow I doubt anyone is.

Yep, I suspect you are right.
I can't even remember the last time a patch or improvement
for 68328 came past me. Same goes for 68360 cpu/platform
as well.

Regards
Greg



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#1306572

On 01/04/2016 03:10 AM, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> On 04/01/16 20:30, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:03:50 +1000
>> Greg Ungerer <gregungerer@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> If 68328serial.c is removed is there any point keeping the
>>> architecture support for 68328 platforms?
>>>
>>> The 68328serial.c provides pretty much the only type of console
>>> that can be used on these devices. They are largely useless
>>> without this
>>
>> Probably we should - unless someone wants to stand up and say "actually
>> I'm using this with current kernels, need it, and I'll maintain it"
>>
>> Somehow I doubt anyone is.
> 
> Yep, I suspect you are right.
> I can't even remember the last time a patch or improvement
> for 68328 came past me. Same goes for 68360 cpu/platform
> as well.

And none of it builds (and there's no build coverage in arch/m68k/configs)

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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