kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/misc/ibmasm/uart.c, branch master

misc: ibmasm: Remove obsolete IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter driver

2026-08-06T09:12:07+00:00

The IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) and RSA II were out-of-band management PCI/ISA cards introduced in the early 2000s for ancient IBM eServer xSeries machines. IBM deprecated the RSA family and replaced it with the Integrated Management Module (IMM) around 2008. IBM subsequently sold its x86 server business to Lenovo in 2014, and modern systems use entirely different BMC architectures. This hardware has been completely obsolete and out of production for over 15 years. Surviving physical servers using this specific hardware would be running ancient 32-bit processors vastly unsuited for modern kernels. A review of the recent git history shows that aside from mechanical treewide VFS API updates, the only recent activities are out-of-bounds fixes in command_file_write and MFA handling. These fixes address userspace-triggered security vulnerabilities and fuzzer-discovered MMIO bugs rather than functional issues reported by active hardware users. Keeping this obsolete driver in the tree leaves an unnecessary attack surface and acts as a "fuzzing honeypot", forcing core maintainers to endlessly review CVEs and OOB fixes for dead hardware, while also paying a maintenance tax to drag it through modern API refactorings. Remove the driver entirely. Signed-off-by: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801070756.161698-1-25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156

2019-05-30T18:26:35+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

8250: three way resolve of the 8250 diffs

2012-07-17T16:11:50+00:00

This resolves the differences between the original 8250 patch, the revised 8250 patch and the independant clean up of the octeon driver (to use platform devices properly yay!) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc latin1 to utf8 conversions

2012-01-02T12:04:55+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

IBMASM: whitespace cleanup

2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00

IBMASM: whitespace cleanup Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Vernon Mauery Cc: Max Asbock Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SERIAL] Remove UPF_AUTOPROBE and UPF_BOOT_ONLYMCA

2006-01-21T20:06:14+00:00

The functionality UPF_BOOT_ONLYMCA provided has been replaced by the 8250_mca module, which only registers MCA ports if MCA is present. UPF_AUTOPROBE has no functional effect - in fact, it's never tested. Only ibmasm set the flag. Signed-off-by: Russell King

[SERIAL] Update ibmasm driver for death of register_serial&co

2005-09-07T20:37:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Max Asbock Signed-off-by: Russell King

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!