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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:07:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcel@...tmann.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, kkeil@...e.de
Subject: Re: mISDN still breaking the allmodconfig build...

From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.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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