On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:36:25PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:42:16 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > It looks like the comx drivers never got updated for 2.5/2.6. Some
> > > obvious issues are:
> > > - lots of use of /proc files without setting the owner field.
> > > - still using cli/sti
> > > - no SMP locking on the linked list (which could be changed to list
> > > macros)
> > > of hardware and protocols.
> > >
> > > Just bumped into this while trying to inspect for all the last possible
> > > broken usage of net_device structure. It is too far behind to address
> > > those issues.
> >
> >
> > Submit a patch to mark these CONFIG_OBSOLETE. AFAIK nobody has cared
> > for most of them since 2.2... (munich is an exception)
> >
>
> diff -Nru a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig
> --- a/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Fri Jul 18 11:55:47 2003
> +++ b/drivers/net/wan/Kconfig Fri Jul 18 11:55:47 2003
> @@ -60,9 +60,10 @@
> #
> # COMX drivers
> #
> +# Not updated to 2.6.
> config COMX
> tristate "MultiGate (COMX) synchronous serial boards support"
> - depends on WAN && (ISA || PCI)
> + depends on WAN && (ISA || PCI) && OBSOLETE
> ---help---
> Say Y if you want to use any board from the MultiGate (COMX) family.
> These boards are synchronous serial adapters for the PC,
Please add the following patch too.
I'm suprised I'm still not removed from the maintainers file, though I
have left itc almost two years ago.
--- MAINTAINERS~ Mon Jul 14 05:35:12 2003
+++ MAINTAINERS Sat Jul 19 10:12:14 2003
@@ -420,8 +420,8 @@
S: Supported
COMX/MULTIGATE SYNC SERIAL DRIVERS
-P: Gergely Madarasz
-M: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@xxxxxx>
+P: Pasztor Szilard
+M: Pasztor Szilard <don@xxxxxx>
S: Supported
COSA/SRP SYNC SERIAL DRIVER
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