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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:48:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wz76lbr.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480CE960.4050000@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:22:08 -0400")

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-20 22:39 [git patches] ISDN cleanups (modularization prep) Jeff Garzik
2008-04-21  0:05 ` ISDN testing (was: [git patches] ISDN cleanups (modularization prep)) Frans Pop
2008-04-21  1:43   ` ISDN testing Jeff Garzik
2008-04-21 13:36     ` Frans Pop
2008-04-21 19:22       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-21 19:48         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-25  2:39           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-21 20:21         ` [git patches] ISDN cleanups (modularization prep) (was: ISDN testing) Frans Pop
2008-04-25  2:46           ` [git patches] ISDN cleanups (modularization prep) Jeff Garzik
2008-04-26 19:42             ` Frans Pop
2008-04-25 16:47   ` ISDN testing (was: [git patches] ISDN cleanups (modularization prep)) Jan Engelhardt

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