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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add raw driver Kconfig entry for s390
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:30:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147681800.5306.13.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060513115255.GA11955@suse.de>

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:52 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> From: Ihno Krumreich <ihno@suse.de>
> 
> The raw module is not enabled on s390/s390x
> During SLES9 and SLES10 development IBM filed bugs about the missing raw
> driver. Avoid that for SLES11 by adding it to the other char driver
> entries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>

NACK. The raw device driver is obsolete and we should not add it to the
s390 kconfig. I know that it is needed in SLES10 for compatability to
SLES9 but given that the option is supposed to vanish I prefer to keep
it out of the upstream tree.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-13 11:52 Olaf Hering
2006-05-13 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-15  8:30 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]

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