Removing disconnected tty drivers

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Wed Oct 1 17:59:55 UTC 2014


Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 20:03 +1000:
> On 2014-Sep-29 11:53:53 -0400, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >The following drivers have never been converted to use the new tty layer 
> >introduced in 8.0 and have been disconnected since then.  Several of them are 
> >for older multiport serial cards, and in the case of sio(4), current kernels 
> >use uart(4) instead.  Barring major objections, I plan to remove them from the 
> >tree later this week.  If someone wishes to update them, they can always be 
> >pulled back from svn history.
> >
> >dev/digi/digi.c:                tp = port->tp = ttyalloc();
> 
> See
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152253
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158086
> unfortunately, I no longer have access to the hardware.  I'm happy to
> update the patches to compile on -current but can't do more than that.

I think I have digi hardware (an old ISA card), and I just recently
upgraded a box to HEAD that has ISA slots, so I'll look at testing
out these patches...

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