Re: [PATCH] tty/synclink: remove leftover bits of non-PCI card support

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jul 28 2020 - 02:20:56 EST


On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:05:36AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 27. 07. 20, 15:05, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Since commit 1355cba9c3ba ("tty/synclink: remove ISA support"), the
> > synlink driver only supports PCI card. Remove any leftover dead code
> > to support other cards.
>
> So now you can remove also the defines and bus_type completely:
> $ git grep -E 'MGSL_BUS_TYPE_(E?ISA|PCI)'
> drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c: info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;
> drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c: info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;
> include/uapi/linux/synclink.h:#define MGSL_BUS_TYPE_ISA 1
> include/uapi/linux/synclink.h:#define MGSL_BUS_TYPE_EISA 2
> include/uapi/linux/synclink.h:#define MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI 5

This is in a uapi header, so I didn't dare to touch it.

>
> $ git grep -w bus_type drivers/tty/synclink*
> drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c: unsigned int bus_type;
> drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c: info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;
> drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c: unsigned int bus_type;
> /* expansion bus type (ISA,EISA,PCI) */
> drivers/tty/synclinkmp.c: info->bus_type = MGSL_BUS_TYPE_PCI;

Despite the similar names these are actually two drivers entirely
separate form the main synclink one.