Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:23:52 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rio: switch to ANSI prototypes |
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Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:52:36PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > >>On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:25:56PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: >> >>>Uh-oh... Well, if you want to play with it... FWIW, I'm disabling rio as >>>hopeless FPOS; if you feel masochistic, go ahead but keep in mind that its >>>handling of tty glue is severely b0rken. >> >>Well, duh... It clutters _my_ logs. > > > diff -urN RC13-git12-nfs-endian/drivers/char/Kconfig RC13-git12-rio/drivers/char/Kconfig > --- RC13-git12-nfs-endian/drivers/char/Kconfig 2005-09-10 15:41:34.000000000 -0400 > +++ RC13-git12-rio/drivers/char/Kconfig 2005-09-12 14:50:05.000000000 -0400 > @@ -282,12 +282,13 @@ > > config RIO > tristate "Specialix RIO system support" > - depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN_ON_SMP > + depends on SERIAL_NONSTANDARD && BROKEN > help > This is a driver for the Specialix RIO, a smart serial card which > drives an outboard box that can support up to 128 ports. Product > information is at <http://www.perle.com/support/documentation.html#multiport>. > There are both ISA and PCI versions. > + Note that while card might be smart, driver most certainly isn't.
Funniest comment line of the month ;-)
But if you have a need for something like this, the bad driver is better than none, and marked BROKEN it may actually get some attention.
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