Re: [PATCH] tty: moxa: remove driver.

From: Jiri Slaby

Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 06:45:48 EST


On 04. 08. 26, 12:18, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 04. 08. 26, 11:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 07:12:01AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 03. 08. 26, 14:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is a very old driver, and no known hardware is still around for it,
and the company says they do not need it anymore, so let's remove it as
the LLMs are starting to poke at it and find "interesting" things which
will just waste everyone's time given it's not actually used.

So let's drop it.  If someone really needs it, it can come back in the
future, in a more "modern" way, as the style here is very old...

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Crescent Hsieh <crescentcy.hsieh@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afqyY8FQ8ZfpH48_@moxa-ThinkCentre- M90t/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM, there are leftovers though:
MAINTAINERS
18341:MOXA SMARTIO/INDUSTIO/INTELLIO SERIAL CARD

As you said, that one documents the mxser.c file, not moxa.c, so should
I just remove both and this entry too?

And the .rst file needs to go, right?

SMARTIO/INDUSTIO = mxser is supposed to stay.
INTELLIO = moxa is being removed.

That being said, the "/INTELLIO" part should go.

thanks,
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js
suse labs