| commit | e1f7f4182a52b850379c0d4f35a8085d9552786a | |
| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | |
| Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:04:38 +0000 (15 17:04 -0700) | ||
| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | |
| Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:21:58 +0000 (9 16:21 -0800) | ||
| tree | 95c272b849c1555096e28cb531d5177bbe63938e | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | b03a3764e5605f63f4a8eabe416c0d8156b93108 | commitdiff |
sparc: Kill PROM console driver.
[ Upstream commit 09d3f3f0e02c8a900d076c302c5c02227f33572d ]
Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
in any situation.
Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.
If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
depending upon this crutch to save us. We've been able to take care
of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
so there are no excuses.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[ Upstream commit 09d3f3f0e02c8a900d076c302c5c02227f33572d ]
Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
in any situation.
Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.
If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
depending upon this crutch to save us. We've been able to take care
of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
so there are no excuses.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>