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

[Nicolas Ferre]

On 04/08/2012 11:55 PM, Andrew Victor :
> hi,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Some of the SAN People / Multenet AT91RM9200 boards needed it....
> We needed to use GPIO pins for some of the modem-control signals -
> couldn't use the standard pins since the alternate pin function was
> being used.
> 
> Regards,
>  Andrew Victor

Hi Andrew,

Well if it is of some interest on your side, I am in favor of keeping
this feature. It is not a so big amount of code and seems quite easy to
maintain...

Thanks a lot to all for your feedback anyway.

Cheers,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre