Re: [PATCH v2] tty: moxa: remove driver.

Crescent Hsieh <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 08:28:59 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-serial,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <anKDyz8AEpyDpdeS@moxa-KabyLake-H>
On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 03:35:29PM +0200, 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...

The removal looks good to me.

Acked-by: Crescent Hsieh <[email protected]>

With drivers/tty/moxa.c removed, the following device IDs in
include/linux/pci_ids.h would have no remaining users:

- PCI_DEVICE_ID_MOXA_CP204J
- PCI_DEVICE_ID_MOXA_C218
- PCI_DEVICE_ID_MOXA_C320

Would it make sense to remove them as part of this patch as well?

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Thanks
Crescent Hsieh