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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
Subject: Re: ISDN testing
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:48:24 +0200
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Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
>
> Yeah, that's what my patchset does -- splits the "hisax" driver into
> multiple smaller drivers.  Thus, "modprobe hisax" produces the results
> that you are seeing.

That will break a lot of user's setup.

> You'll need to determine which newly-created kernel module applies to
> your hardware.  Let me know if you need help with that.  The new
> drivers should be in
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-isdn/kernel/drivers/isdn/hisax/ provided that you
> enabled them in the kernel configuration.

One way to avoid that issue would be to continue having a dummy
"hisax" module that just depends on all the other drivers with 
a symbol reference.
 
That could be optional with some compat CONFIG.

-Andi