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| author | Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> | 2008-05-14 16:05:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-05-14 19:11:12 -0700 |
| commit | f7c5a770e6006ae2b5f4fd0491565b69e4d4bb48 (patch) | |
| tree | 6802b84b29c445b2885ebfd3b76381ab8eb426ab | |
| parent | 57cc097931e2d28a27e19515c549dc301ba6b6b2 (diff) | |
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m68knommu: add info about removing mcfserial
Schedule a removal for this driver. Alternative driver is available for
a while now.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/serial/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/serial/mcfserial.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3c35d452b1a9..5b3f31faed56 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -289,6 +289,14 @@ Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> --------------------------- +What: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE) +When: 2.6.28 +Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced + by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF. +Who: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> + +--------------------------- + What: /sys/o2cb symlink When: January 2010 Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig index 36acbcca2d48..62e6eb136a3c 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig @@ -976,11 +976,15 @@ config SERIAL_68328_RTS_CTS depends on SERIAL_68328 config SERIAL_COLDFIRE - bool "ColdFire serial support" + bool "ColdFire serial support (DEPRECATED)" depends on COLDFIRE help This driver supports the built-in serial ports of the Motorola ColdFire family of CPUs. + This driver is deprecated because it supports only the old interface + for serial drivers and features like magic keys are not working. + Please switch to the new style driver because this driver will be + removed soon. config SERIAL_MCF bool "Coldfire serial support (new style driver)" diff --git a/drivers/serial/mcfserial.c b/drivers/serial/mcfserial.c index 43af40d59b8a..56007cc8a9b3 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/mcfserial.c +++ b/drivers/serial/mcfserial.c @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +#warning This driver is deprecated. Check Kconfig for details. /* * mcfserial.c -- serial driver for ColdFire internal UARTS. * |