Re: [PATCH] mkiss

From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB (gmgbo@mx.dy.fi)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 03:11:48 EEST

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    On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:17:33PM +0200, Jeroen Vreeken wrote:

    > This is a patch to get mkiss working under 2.5.74
    > It used the driver_data field of the tty structure, this field can be NULL.
    > Further the whole mkiss magic stuff seems to be unreachable as I can't find
    > a single piece of code in the kernel that sets the driver_data field with
    > this structure... Is is something from a long time ago?? Shouldn't it be
    > removed completly?
    > This patch also removes the MOD_*_USE_COUNT calls.

    The code that was setting the magic number - actually large parts of
    mkiss.c were removed in 2.4.0-prerelease. Alan Cox did remove support for
    mkiss as a tty driver; the mkiss magic stuff are the last remains of it;
    they should be removed also.

    73 de DO1GRB op Ralf 

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