[PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers

[Håvard Skinnemoen]

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt
<egtvedt at samfundet.no> wrote:
> Around Fri 06 Apr 2012 18:02:29 +0200 or thereabout, Joachim Eastwood wrote:
>> No AT91/AVR32 boards currently use at91_register_uart_fns so let's remove it.
>>
>> The only other mach in the kernel that has a *_register_uart_fns function
>> is SA1100 so the demand for this functionality is not great.
>
> I agree with your statement, and I've never used this functionality. I'll
> leave it to Nicolas to decide, AFAIK there are no AVR32 users of these
> functions, if there are, they've never submitted any board code upstream.

Yeah, as far as I know, nobody ever used this functionality on AVR32.
In fact, I can't even think of a reason to use it.

But I seem to recall submitting a patch to remove this functionality a
long time ago, and it was struck down. I don't remember the reason,
but there's a chance it might still be valid. The AT91 people should
know.

>> Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood <joachim.eastwood at jotron.com>
>
> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt at samfundet.no>

Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen at gmail.com>