Re: [PATCH] Fix broken compilation of Cris serial driver

[Jesper Nilsson <Jesper.Nilsson@axis.com>]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:57:01PM +0200, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:07:16PM +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> > >     compilation of cris serial driver on 2.6.30-rc1 is broken since 
> > > commit number 0f043a81ebe84be3576667f04fdda481609e3816 removed the 
> > > read_proc field from the tty_driver structure.
> > > 
> > > The patch in attachment may fix the problem. Please check it very 
> > > carefully: I don't have hardware to make any test.
> 
> > > -	.read_proc = rs_read_proc,
> > >  	.tiocmget = rs_tiocmget,
> > >  	.tiocmset = rs_tiocmset
> > >  };
> > > @@ -4490,6 +4490,7 @@ rs_init(void)
> > >  	if (tty_register_driver(driver))
> > >  		panic("Couldn't register serial driver\n");
> > >  	/* do some initializing for the separate ports */
> > > +	driver->proc_entry->read_proc = rs_read_proc;
> > 
> > Is this the recommended way to convert proc handling?
> 
> No.

Ok, that's what I thought.

> > I find no other serial driver that does it this way...
> 
> ->read_proc effectively went away.

...so what do we use as a replacement, is it .proc_fops
or anything else?

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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