sparc: Kill PROM console driver.

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>
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David S. Miller
2009-09-15 17:04:38 -07:00
parent 0cb583fd28
commit 09d3f3f0e0
10 changed files with 1 additions and 640 deletions

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@@ -2948,9 +2948,6 @@ int __init vty_init(const struct file_operations *console_fops)
panic("Couldn't register console driver\n");
kbd_init();
console_map_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE
prom_con_init();
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE
mda_console_init();
#endif