[PATCH] moxa: Update status of Moxa Smartio driver

[PATCH] moxa: Update status of Moxa Smartio driver

[james4765]

After contacting Moxa, I found out that they no longer maintain the in-kernel
driver, and instead maintain an updated driver as an external patch.

This patch updates the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com>

diff -urN --exclude='*~' linux-2.6.10-rc3-original/Documentation/moxa-smartio linux-2.6.10-rc3/Documentation/moxa-smartio
--- linux-2.6.10-rc3-original/Documentation/moxa-smartio	2004-12-03 16:53:46.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc3/Documentation/moxa-smartio	2004-12-12 07:49:44.419433515 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+***NOTE*** - The driver included in the kernel is not maintained by Moxa.  They
+have a version 1.8 driver available from:
+
+http://www.moxa.com
+
+that works with 2.6 kernels.  Currently, Moxa has no plans to have their updated
+driver merged into the kernel.
+
+James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> - 12-12-2004
+
 =============================================================================
 
 	MOXA Smartio Family Device Driver Ver 1.1 Installation Guide

[PATCH] moxa: Remove ancient changelog README.moxa

[james4765]

The driver at Moxa's website is version 1.8.  There is no need for this file.

Signed-off-by: James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com>

diff -urN --exclude='*~' linux-2.6.10-rc3-original/Documentation/README.moxa linux-2.6.10-rc3/Documentation/README.moxa
--- linux-2.6.10-rc3-original/Documentation/README.moxa	2004-12-03 16:52:41.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc3/Documentation/README.moxa	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
- ===================================================================	
- Release Note of Linux Driver for Moxa's C104/C168/CI-104J
- ===================================================================	
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ver. 1.1  				               Sep.  1, 1999
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1. Improved:
-   a. Static driver (kernel) and dynamic driver (loadable module) 
-      modes are supported.
-   b. Multiple Smartio PCI series boards sharing the same IRQ 
-      supported.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ver. 1.0  				               Feb  17, 1997
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1. Newly release.
-

Re: [PATCH] moxa: Update status of Moxa Smartio driver

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2004-12-12 at 13:00, james4765@verizon.net wrote:
> After contacting Moxa, I found out that they no longer maintain the in-kernel
> driver, and instead maintain an updated driver as an external patch.

> +http://www.moxa.com
> +
> +that works with 2.6 kernels.  Currently, Moxa has no plans to have their updated
> +driver merged into the kernel.

Works with 2.6 kernels up to 2.6.8 and providing its a 32bit machine and
you don't use some try and send a break.

Actually if you filter all the 2.2/2.4 ifdefs out of it and clean up the
formatting a bit its not a badly written driver and its GPL. I've
forward ported/fixed a cleaned up 2.6.9 version and dropped it into -ac
(on the grounds the existing one doesn't work at all so this is
progress).

Someone with some PCI moxa cards as opposed to ISA needs to add hotplug
support to it so that it uses pci_register foo rather than scanning the
bus old style.

Once we have something stable I can test with I'll tweak it for the
2.6.10 changes and submit it to the main tree.

Alan