Removing disconnected tty drivers

[Warner Losh]

On Sep 29, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

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> In message <1789815.bS8Ac2qsJ6 at ralph.baldwin.cx>, John Baldwin writes:
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>> Barring major objections, I plan to remove them from the tree later this week.
> 
>> dev/cx/if_cx.c:         d->tty = ttyalloc ();
>> dev/cy/cy.c:                    tp = com->tp = ttyalloc();
>> dev/digi/digi.c:                tp = port->tp = ttyalloc();
>> dev/rc/rc.c:            tp = rc->rc_tp = ttyalloc();
>> dev/sio/sio.c:  tp = com->tp = ttyalloc();
>> pc98/cbus/sio.c:        tp = com->tp = ttyalloc();
> 
> Those drivers ran a LOT of modems back when the internet spread like
> wildfire...
> 
> Sic Transit Gloria Mundi! & Good Riddance!

Agreed. I bought cy and digi hardware so that I could convert them, but never
did. I’ve had that hardware in my garage for about 5 or 6 years now. Anybody that
wants it can drop me a note.

Warner

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