From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@itc.hu>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: comx drivers in 2.6
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:36:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718123625.6f8ae9b9.shemminger@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F173458.6060405@pobox.com>
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:42:16 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > It looks like the comx drivers never got updated for 2.5/2.6. Some
> > obvious issues are:
> > - lots of use of /proc files without setting the owner field.
> > - still using cli/sti
> > - no SMP locking on the linked list (which could be changed to list macros)
> > of hardware and protocols.
> >
> > Just bumped into this while trying to inspect for all the last possible
> > broken usage of net_device structure. It is too far behind to address
> > those issues.
>
>
> Submit a patch to mark these CONFIG_OBSOLETE. AFAIK nobody has cared
> for most of them since 2.2... (munich is an exception)
>
diff -Nru a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Fri Jul 18 11:55:47 2003
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Fri Jul 18 11:55:47 2003
@@ -60,9 +60,10 @@
#
# COMX drivers
#
+# Not updated to 2.6.
config COMX
tristate "MultiGate (COMX) synchronous serial boards support"
- depends on WAN && (ISA || PCI)
+ depends on WAN && (ISA || PCI) && OBSOLETE
---help---
Say Y if you want to use any board from the MultiGate (COMX) family.
These boards are synchronous serial adapters for the PC,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-17 23:33 comx drivers in 2.6 Stephen Hemminger
2003-07-17 23:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-18 19:36 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2003-07-19 8:14 ` Gergely Madarasz
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