From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270324AbTG1RI2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:08:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270326AbTG1RI2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:08:28 -0400 Received: from palrel11.hp.com ([156.153.255.246]:47534 "EHLO palrel11.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270324AbTG1RI1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:08:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:23:42 -0700 To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.6: irtty vs. irtty-sir Message-ID: <20030728172342.GC18257@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrey Borzenkov wrote : > > irtty is dabbed as broken in Makefile. > > Question - is it fundamentally broken, sometimes broken or under special > conditions broken? :) Fundamentally broken, as "I should have get rid of it 6 months ago, but I'm too lazy". > I need to decide if I replace default ldisc-11 by irtty-sir in 2.6 > (risking that some dongles stop working for some people) or leave it > as irtty and tell guys who build kernel to use CONFIG_IRTTY_OLD Yes, some dongle drivers will need rewritting. Jean