From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernard Pidoux <bpidoux@free.fr>,
Bernard Pidoux <pidoux@ccr.jussieu.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel 2.6] Patch for mxser.c driver
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:16:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145909796.1635.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <444D1AD1.4000301@gmail.com>
On Llu, 2006-04-24 at 20:36 +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Thanks for sources. The problem is, they still use deprecated api, they still
> pci_find_device, despite I applied them to correct it and they promise to at
> least try their best, unfortunately with no effect :(. I guess, if they don't
> convert it to pci probing, the driver won't be altered (delete 'if LINUXVERSION'
> and so on) to be re-merged as a new version.
Far better would be to diff their old driver and their new driver then
import the changes into the Linux driver proper.
I've got their December 2004 driver (the one we originally worked from)
as an archive here if someone wants to do the work. Some of their later
changes did get imported but not all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-24 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-11 21:20 [kernel 2.6] Patch for mxser.c driver Bernard Pidoux
2006-04-11 22:21 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-04-12 9:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-24 8:50 ` Bernard Pidoux
2006-04-24 10:52 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-04-24 18:37 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-04-24 20:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-04-11 22:24 ` Jiri Slaby
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