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SubjectRe: mISDN still breaking the allmodconfig build...
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Hi Dave,

>>> More fallout from the premature mISDN driver merge:
>>>
>>> drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcmulti.c:5255:2: error: #error "not
>>> running on big endian machines now"
>>
>> is that only the HFC driver or the whole mISDN stack?
>>
>> I know that the two old ISDN stacks where really bad on big endian,
>> but my assumption was that we did sort this out in the end.
>
> One of the two mISDN drivers uses the deprecated virt_to_bus()
> interface for handling DMA addresses (that doesn't even work on many
> x86 systems these days) and the other mISDN driver gives the above
> big-endian compile time error.
>
> In short, this driver was not ready for merging at all.

I am not defending it and agree that this driver should have had at
least one test run in linux-next. However mISDN is a whole ISDN stack.
So does mISDN has an issue too or do we only have a really broken
driver. Karsten?

Regards

Marcel



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