Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc3-mm1
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20051130162324.GA15273@infradead.org>
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	 <20051130162324.GA15273@infradead.org>
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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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