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Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Remove references to obsolete CONFIG_SERIAL167
From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 20:33 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:02, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > 1) I've been looking at this impressive dependency list a few days back.
> > My impression was that it can be reduced to only AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL=y.
> > (After that this Kconfig symbol might better be renamed to
> > AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL_CONSOLE.)
> >
> > I might have a draft patch to drop the dependencies somewhere. I need to
> > have another look at that (draft) patch before I can submit it.
> 
> You are right: all drivers (except for AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL) got lost due to
> bitrot, or never made it to mainline. Will fix.

Nice.

> But please keep SERIAL_CONSOLE.

Why do you care about SERIAL_CONSOLE? If it's only really used by
AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL why shouldn't we rename it to
AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL_CONSOLE?

> BTW, updating the m68k defconfigs is also on my list.

Nice too. Jiri Kosina already claimed to be able to handle any problems
caused by my cleaning efforts (which I haven't made public, since I'm
still pondering on a way to publish a 400K+ patch).


Paul Bolle