Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:07:36 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20080727.180736.74131389.davem@davemloft.net>
To: marcel@holtmann.org
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       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, kkeil@suse.de
Subject: Re: mISDN still breaking the allmodconfig build...
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:03:04 +0200

> > 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.
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