Re: can we drop the comedi serial2002 drivers from staging?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As far as I can tell there has been no targeted work on the driver
> since merging it at all, and since 2014 even the comedi-wide
> cleanups stopped, laving just drive by tree wide changes since.
> 
> At the same time the driver badly abuses the tty layer and is one
> of only two major abusers of the poll code for in-kernel waits.

Yeah, it's an ugly driver.  It should be rewritten to use the new serdev
api instead of trying to open a tty device node from within the kernel.

I don't object to dropping it.  Ian and Hartley, do you know of any
users of this driver anymore?

thanks,

greg k-h