Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

2007-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> (Probably the biggest obstacle, was the extra ioctls to > manage "Digi" specific things, and other hooks that are > simply not permitted in in-kernel code) Oh please ignore the ioctl bigots, I think they've also mostly gone away and accepted they lost the argument to the real world anyway/ > Tr

RE: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

2007-07-02 Thread Kilau, Scott
Hi all, > Last time I poked at the tools they were working under 2.6 with some > trivial compile fixes. Ideally this driver would be trimmed > to ISA only > and the newer dgrs drivers merged but latter half appears to > be something > digi have no interest in I would be very surprised if anyone

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

2007-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be > > > > acquired from > > > > http://www.digi.com, but only works with 2.4 kernels." > > > > > > So fix them or merge the newer digi drivers first. > > > > ok, but what then does it mean to

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

2007-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > > This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be acquired > > > from > > > http://www.digi.com, but only works with 2.4 kernels." > > > > So fix them or merge the newer digi drivers first. > > ok, but what then does it mean to read that this driver: > > 1) *requires* a numbe

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

2007-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT) > "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > > > everything indicates that this driver is thoroughly dead. the > > MAINTAINERS file desc

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

2007-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > everything indicates that this driver is thoroughly dead. the > MAINTAINERS file describes it as "Orphaned", while the file > Documentatio