sparc: Kill PROM console driver.

[ Upstream commit 09d3f3f0e02c8a900d076c302c5c02227f33572d ]

Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
in any situation.

Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.

If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
depending upon this crutch to save us.  We've been able to take care
of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
so there are no excuses.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This commit is contained in:
David S. Miller
2009-09-15 17:04:38 -07:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent b03a3764e5
commit e1f7f4182a
10 changed files with 1 additions and 640 deletions

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@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += kallsyms
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_LOGO) += pnmtologo
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_VT) += conmakehash
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE) += conmakehash
hostprogs-$(CONFIG_IKCONFIG) += bin2c
always := $(hostprogs-y) $(hostprogs-m)