Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262659AbVDYQbA (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:31:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262685AbVDYQaz (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:30:55 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.198]:31445 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262667AbVDYQaT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:30:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pOf6Rvsj8uecD3Hdx1aVNK2RXaV4cOwkR/ncXnPNVXAztJ/ji7I7EYPDzyR/V3LeXVGMKXZnq/uLXbs7CYX7cUHCzjx0X5RILiniyQ3Ct+vCituX2HyNhCFMUQ+odRplpli+vugZdjUg3jXiHkOvMaWt8cORwtVFRho9N/NavPw= Message-ID: <5fc59ff3050425093012ab23b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:30:12 -0700 From: Ganesh Venkatesan Reply-To: Ganesh Venkatesan To: Torben Mathiasen Subject: Re: Linux kernel TI TLAN driver Cc: Alan Cox , Atro.Tossavainen@helsinki.fi, torben.mathiasen@compaq.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050425135603.GD7617@linux2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200504220800.j3M80GSL006528@kruuna.helsinki.fi> <1114428275.18355.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050425135603.GD7617@linux2> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 31 In general, just adding the device id to a driver in order to enable it for a new device is not sufficient. They may (in most cases, will) be additional logic that is needed in the driver to correctly enable the new device. If this is the case, I'd expect the patched driver to fail on open even with the 2.6 kernel. ganesh. On 4/25/05, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > > Try with 2.6.x - I'm not sure the 64bit cleanness stuff ever all got > > into the 2.4 driver version. > > Yeah the 2.6 version is your best bet. Allthough, I haven't tried it on an > Alpha in a long time. > > BTW. I'm not maintaining the driver anymore. Samuel Chessman (chessman@tux.org) > took over maintainership, but I'm not sure if he's still active. > > Torben > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/