Re: [PATCH 8/9] tty: ircomm: remove dead and broken ioctl code

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:57:14AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:48:41AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:27:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Tue,  6 Jun 2017 12:54:40 +0200
> > > Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Remove three ifdefed and broken implementations of TIOCSSERIAL and
> > > > TIOCGICOUNT, and parity handling in set_termios which had suffered
> > > > severe bit rot.
> > > 
> > > I would be amazed if the IRDA code still works. It's not been tested
> > > properly for years and it never followed the tty rules properly in the
> > > first place - so this looks good, although moving IRDA into staging
> > > and /dev/null would IMHO be far better.
> > > 
> > > IRDA is dead, and IR remotes are handled via completely different code.
> > 
> > I agree, and we should move it into staging and out of the tree, I'll
> > send netdev some patches for that...
> 
> Sounds good, but please consider applying this patch before moving to
> staging as people have been modifying this dead code as part of
> kernel-wide updates even though hasn't even compiled for quite some
> time.

I already applied it :)

I'll wait for 4.13-rc1 before doing it (if I remember...)

thanks,

greg k-h