From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751216AbWDXUGy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:06:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751221AbWDXUGy (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:06:54 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54196 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751216AbWDXUGx (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:06:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [kernel 2.6] Patch for mxser.c driver From: Alan Cox To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Bernard Pidoux , Bernard Pidoux , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <444D1AD1.4000301@gmail.com> References: <443C1DA0.1030004@ccr.jussieu.fr> <443C2BF4.6070106@gmail.com> <1144834562.1952.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <444C913B.3020706@free.fr> <444D1AD1.4000301@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:16:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1145909796.1635.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.