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m68knommu: add info about removing mcfserial

Schedule a removal for this driver. Alternative driver is available for
a while now.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Sebastian Siewior and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
··· 289 289 290 290 --------------------------- 291 291 292 + What: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE) 293 + When: 2.6.28 294 + Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced 295 + by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF. 296 + Who: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> 297 + 298 + --------------------------- 299 + 292 300 What: /sys/o2cb symlink 293 301 When: January 2010 294 302 Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb
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drivers/serial/Kconfig
··· 976 976 depends on SERIAL_68328 977 977 978 978 config SERIAL_COLDFIRE 979 - bool "ColdFire serial support" 979 + bool "ColdFire serial support (DEPRECATED)" 980 980 depends on COLDFIRE 981 981 help 982 982 This driver supports the built-in serial ports of the Motorola ColdFire 983 983 family of CPUs. 984 + This driver is deprecated because it supports only the old interface 985 + for serial drivers and features like magic keys are not working. 986 + Please switch to the new style driver because this driver will be 987 + removed soon. 984 988 985 989 config SERIAL_MCF 986 990 bool "Coldfire serial support (new style driver)"
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drivers/serial/mcfserial.c
··· 1 + #warning This driver is deprecated. Check Kconfig for details. 1 2 /* 2 3 * mcfserial.c -- serial driver for ColdFire internal UARTS. 3 4 *