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m68knommu: add info about removing mcfserial

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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>
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Sebastian Siewior 2008-05-14 16:05:30 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 57cc097931
commit f7c5a770e6
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@ -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Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced
by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF.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 What: /sys/o2cb symlink
When: January 2010 When: January 2010
Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb

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drivers/serial/Kconfig
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@ -976,11 +976,15 @@ config SERIAL_68328_RTS_CTS
depends on SERIAL_68328 depends on SERIAL_68328
config SERIAL_COLDFIRE config SERIAL_COLDFIRE
bool "ColdFire serial support" bool "ColdFire serial support (DEPRECATED)"
depends on COLDFIRE depends on COLDFIRE
help help
This driver supports the built-in serial ports of the Motorola ColdFire This driver supports the built-in serial ports of the Motorola ColdFire
family of CPUs. 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 config SERIAL_MCF
bool "Coldfire serial support (new style driver)" bool "Coldfire serial support (new style driver)"

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drivers/serial/mcfserial.c
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@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
#warning This driver is deprecated. Check Kconfig for details.
/* /*
* mcfserial.c -- serial driver for ColdFire internal UARTS. * mcfserial.c -- serial driver for ColdFire internal UARTS.
* *