From: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Janitorial patch: Removing obsolete, broken oaknet driver including references to it
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:11:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510152211.41916.niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org> (raw)
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Hi everybody
As I wandered through the 2.6.14-rc4 kernel I noticed that since 2.6.10 the
old OAK (PPC403) evaluation board from IBM is no longer supported. I am quite
familiar with this board, as we at work we have quite a few some running
another OS.
The ethernet driver for this board (oaknet.c) required quite a few tricks
(e.g. some function like ei_obp) to work around some very annnoying design
weaknesses of the original board. As this driver is only used for this board
and not even compilable (eg. ei_obp is nowhere defined) I think it would be
better to remove it altogether.
As this is my first attempt to get a patch into the linux kernel, do not
hesitate to point out any mistakes I made.
My experiences using cogito have been very positive.
Please CC to me as I am not subscribed to this list.
Best regards
Niklaus Giger
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