Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964810AbWEOI3j (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 04:29:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964811AbWEOI3j (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 04:29:39 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:43915 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964810AbWEOI3i (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 04:29:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add raw driver Kconfig entry for s390 From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Olaf Hering Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060513115255.GA11955@suse.de> References: <20060513115255.GA11955@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Corporation Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:30:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1147681800.5306.13.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1001 Lines: 31 On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:52 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > From: Ihno Krumreich > > The raw module is not enabled on s390/s390x > During SLES9 and SLES10 development IBM filed bugs about the missing raw > driver. Avoid that for SLES11 by adding it to the other char driver > entries. > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering NACK. The raw device driver is obsolete and we should not add it to the s390 kconfig. I know that it is needed in SLES10 for compatability to SLES9 but given that the option is supposed to vanish I prefer to keep it out of the upstream tree. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - 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/