Re: [PATCH] tty: moxa: remove driver.

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 12:19:40 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-serial,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04. 08. 26, 12:18, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04. 08. 26, 11:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 07:12:01AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> On 03. 08. 26, 14:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> This is a very old driver, and no known hardware is still around for 
>>>> it,
>>>> and the company says they do not need it anymore, so let's remove it as
>>>> the LLMs are starting to poke at it and find "interesting" things which
>>>> will just waste everyone's time given it's not actually used.
>>>>
>>>> So let's drop it.  If someone really needs it, it can come back in the
>>>> future, in a more "modern" way, as the style here is very old...
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: Crescent Hsieh <[email protected]>
>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/afqyY8FQ8ZfpH48_@moxa-ThinkCentre- 
>>>> M90t/
>>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> LGTM, there are leftovers though:
>>> MAINTAINERS
>>> 18341:MOXA SMARTIO/INDUSTIO/INTELLIO SERIAL CARD
>>
>> As you said, that one documents the mxser.c file, not moxa.c, so should
>> I just remove both and this entry too?
>>
>> And the .rst file needs to go, right?
> 
> SMARTIO/INDUSTIO = mxser is supposed to stay.
> INTELLIO = moxa is being removed.

That being said, the "/INTELLIO" part should go.

> thanks,
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js
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