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SubjectRe: [PATCH] rio: switch to ANSI prototypes
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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