Re: [3/3] 2.6 broken serial drivers

From: Russell King
Date: Sun Jan 18 2004 - 11:21:20 EST


On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:10:23PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:21:15PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- 1.14/drivers/net/wan/pc300_tty.c Thu Sep 11 18:40:53 2003
> > > +++ edited/drivers/net/wan/pc300_tty.c Tue Jan 13 14:42:34 2004
> > > @@ -583,6 +583,14 @@
> > > CPC_TTY_DBG("%s: IOCTL cmd %x\n",cpc_tty->name,cmd);
> > >
> > > switch (cmd) {
> > > +#error This is broken. See comments.
> >
> > Grumble. This breaks allmodconfig. #warning, please.
>
> Probably far better to make all these drivers depend on BROKEN unless
> one of the authors speaks up.

Ok, no one spoke, so here's the patch to mark this driver broken:

===== drivers/net/wan/Kconfig 1.16 vs edited =====
--- 1.16/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Tue Dec 30 08:45:02 2003
+++ edited/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Sun Jan 18 16:15:19 2004
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@

config PC300_MLPPP
bool "Cyclades-PC300 MLPPP support"
- depends on PC300 && PPP_MULTILINK && PPP_SYNC_TTY && HDLC_PPP
+ depends on PC300 && PPP_MULTILINK && PPP_SYNC_TTY && HDLC_PPP && BROKEN
help
Say 'Y' to this option if you are planning to use Multilink PPP over the
PC300 synchronous communication boards.


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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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