linux-kernel - Re: why usr/include/linux/if

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Message-ID: <m3zlhlycso.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:53:27 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	mike.mclagan@...ux.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why usr/include/linux/if_frad.h is required

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:

> The CONFIG_DLCI check in there is clearly in error, the definition in there
> is a user interface. The obvious solution is to drop the #if / #endif pair
> without a replacement.

I think so.
OTOH I'd be really surprised if anyone on the planet still used this
code/driver. IIRC and AFAICS it is (sdla.c coupled with dlci.c) the
first driver for the old Sangoma ISA sync serial cards (S502 - S508,
i.e. those based on Z80CPU doing HDLC and other things in firmware).


There was also a second(?) driver for those cards (official from
Sangoma), but:

commit 8db60bcf3021921e2d10d158641792d640e52fe8
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Date:   Tue Apr 11 17:28:33 2006 -0700

    [WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma drivers.
    
    The in-kernel Sangoma drivers are both not compiling and marked as BROKEN
    since at least kernel 2.6.0.
    
    Sangoma offers out-of-tree drivers, and David Mandelstam told me Sangoma
    does no longer maintain the in-kernel drivers and prefers to provide them
    as a separate installation package.
    
    This patch therefore removes these drivers.


They claim support for "All S-Series Legacy Cards" with out-of-tree
drivers available from www.sangoma.com.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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