From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4 patch] disallow modular CONFIG_COMX
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:25:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040113002541.GX9677@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40031EB1.5030705@pobox.com>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:24:49PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> >CONFIG_COMX=m always gave an unresolved symbol in kernel 2.4, and it
> >seems noone is interested in properly fixing it.
> >
> >The patch below disallows a modular CONFIG_COMX.
>
> I agree with the intent...
>
> At this point, I am tempted to simply comment it out of the Config.in,
> and let interested parties backport bug fixes and crap from 2.6 if they
> would like. The driver has had obvious bugs for a while...
In 2.6 the driver is marked BROKEN...
I only checked the compilation, if the driver compiled statically works
I don't think it's a good idea to completely disable it.
> Jeff
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-13 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 13:13 Linux 2.4.24-pre3 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-31 13:53 ` Tim Cambrant
2003-12-31 15:26 ` Andreas Haumer
2004-01-10 1:39 ` [2.4 patch] fix CONFIG_DS1742 Config.in entry Adrian Bunk
2004-01-11 1:30 ` [2.4 patch] disallow modular CONFIG_COMX Adrian Bunk
2004-01-12 22:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-13 0:25 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-01-13 9:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-13 10:51 ` viro
2004-01-12 2:10 ` [2.4 patch] simplify PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA dependencies Adrian Bunk
2004-01-13 0:58 ` [2.4 patch] simplify COMX_PROTO_LAPB dependencies Adrian Bunk
2003-12-31 18:51 ` Iostats reporting problems was: Linux 2.4.24-pre3 Mike Fedyk
2004-01-13 1:42 ` Rick Lindsley
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