Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ...

Alan Cox
2008-02-18T12:13:34Z

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:08:33 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> >
> > If Jeff does that, I still can't drop those PCI functions from the PCI
> > core, which I desperatly want to do as they do not play nice with modern
> > systems (meaning hotplug...).
> >
> > So either way, I think his patches should go in.
>
> Merging essentially untested patches does not seem like a good strategy.
> And there is definitely still a large ISDN user base too.
>
> My personal guess is that there are far more ISDN users than (non cardbus)
> PCI/PCI-e hotplug users.

pci_find_ breaks Cardbus too in some cases. It should die. So either we
apply the patches or mark the offenders as BROKEN. Clearly they are not
maintained as they've been left broken this way for ages and are not
going to get fixed unless persuasion is applied.

Alan