Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6 eicon/ and hardware/eicon/ drivers using thesamesymbols (fwd)

From: Armin Schindler
Date: Wed Nov 12 2003 - 14:55:46 EST


I already send a patch to Linus and asked him to remove the
old driver in drivers/isdn/eicon.

The new driver in drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon will take over
for the Eicon ISDN PCI cards including a lot of new features.

Armin

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> The patch forwarded below is still required in -test9.
>
> Please apply
> Adrian
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Armin Schindler <armin@xxxxxxxxxx> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:33:53 +0200 (MEST)
> From: Armin Schindler <armin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <isdn4linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] Re: 2.6 eicon/ and hardware/eicon/ drivers using the samesymbols
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I got the link error below in 2.6.0-test5-mm4 (but it doesn't seem to be
> > specific to -mm).
> >
> > It seems some drivers under eicon/ and hardware/eicon/ use the same
> > symbols. Either some symbols should be renamed or Kconfig dependencies
> > should ensure that you can't build two such drivers statically into the
> > kernel at the same time.
>
> The legacy eicon driver in drivers/isdn/eicon is the old one and will be
> removed as soon as all features went to the new driver.
> Anyway this old driver was never meant to be non-module.
>
> This patch should do it.
>
> Armin
>
>
>
> --- linux-2.5/drivers/isdn/eicon/Kconfig.orig Thu Sep 25 13:28:07 2003
> +++ linux-2.5/drivers/isdn/eicon/Kconfig Thu Sep 25 13:27:01 2003
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> choice
> prompt "Eicon active card support"
> optional
> - depends on ISDN_DRV_EICON && ISDN
> + depends on ISDN_DRV_EICON && ISDN && m
>
> config ISDN_DRV_EICON_DIVAS
> tristate "Eicon driver"
>
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