Re: pm_register should die

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 07:13:28 EST


Hi!

> > pm_register has been obsoleted by driver model, and it was deprecated
> > quite long time ago. There are only 13 users left.
> >
> > Attached is a patch that makes pm_register config-option, so that we
> > don't get the warnings on sane systems. Pretty please, remove usage of
> > pm_register from your subsystem.
> >
> > IRDA has no usefull MAINTAINER entry; it would be nice if that could
> > be fixed. Alan is best contact I could find for ad1848... does someone
> > care about that driver, anyway? nm256_audio is written by
> > anonymous. Wonderfull...
> >
> > Okay, it seems to me only users that matter are mtdcore, 3c509 and
> > maybe h3600_ts_input. After those are fixed, it should be okay to just
> > config it out/remove pm_register completely.
>
> Feel free to clean out pm_register usage in:
>
> drivers/serial/68328serial.c
>
> there's not much in there that cannot be added later if actually required,

I'd rather have someone who actually has that hardware to convert it
to driver model and test properly.
Pavel
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