From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkiss Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 02:11:48 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030707001148.GC29616@linux-mips.org> References: <20030705211733.A255@jeroen.pe1rxq.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030705211733.A255@jeroen.pe1rxq.ampr.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeroen Vreeken Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:17:33PM +0200, Jeroen Vreeken wrote: > This is a patch to get mkiss working under 2.5.74 > It used the driver_data field of the tty structure, this field can be NULL. > Further the whole mkiss magic stuff seems to be unreachable as I can't find > a single piece of code in the kernel that sets the driver_data field with > this structure... Is is something from a long time ago?? Shouldn't it be > removed completly? > This patch also removes the MOD_*_USE_COUNT calls. The code that was setting the magic number - actually large parts of mkiss.c were removed in 2.4.0-prerelease. Alan Cox did remove support for mkiss as a tty driver; the mkiss magic stuff are the last remains of it; they should be removed also. 73 de DO1GRB op Ralf -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21