On Sun, 2015-09-08 at 00:51:35 UTC, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> drivers/tty/hvc/Kconfig:config HVC_DRIVER
> drivers/tty/hvc/Kconfig:        bool
> 
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only, even
> though someone bothered to comment that the code was not used.
> 
> Unlike other changes, this driver binds in w/o using module_init,
> so we dont have init ordering concerns with this commit.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>

Seems sane to me, possibly back in the deep dark past it could be a module, but
no point keeping the code around if it can't anymore.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>

cheers
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