On Sat, May 02, 2026 at 08:07:38PM -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:

The synclink_gt driver was marked as broken in commit 426263d5fb40
("tty: synclink_gt: mark as BROKEN") in July 2023 because it had severe
structural problems and there had been no evidence of users since 2016.
Since then, no meaningful improvements have been made to the driver,
and it is unlikely that will ever happen due to the lack of interest.
Drop the driver and references to it in comments and documentation.
Retain include/uapi/linux/synclink.h to avoid breaking userspace
software.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <redacted>
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Changes from v1:
- Retain UAPI header - the linux-raw-sys Rust crate generates bindings
for it [1]

Then that means someone uses it somewhere.  Don't generate bindings for
something that will break because it is no longer in the tree :(

If no one does use it, then please get that project to fix their code so
that we don't break their build.

thanks,

greg k-h