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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:13:21 +0200 From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 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... Hi Dave, >>> 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. I am not defending it and agree that this driver should have had at least one test run in linux-next. However mISDN is a whole ISDN stack. So does mISDN has an issue too or do we only have a really broken driver. Karsten? Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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