Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:18:25 +1100 |
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On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:23 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:31:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15-rc3/2.6.15-rc3-mm1/ > > > > - Several ISA sound drivers don't compile. This is due to a collision > > between the ALSA and PCMCIA trees, and to breakage in the ALSA tree. > > > > - drivers/serial/jsm/* still doesn't compile. > > Maybe it's time to drop the driver again? It's known to be very abusive > of tty internals it shouldn't touch and the vendor blocks adding more > hardware support to it because it prefers it own (even worse) driver. > > This will give IBM who apparently cares about this hardware the chance to > reintroduce a proper driver again that supports all hardware and doesn't > abuse the tty layer.
Aren't UARTs driven by this driver also compatible with the 8250 one ?
Ben.
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