On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Paul Gortmaker wrote: [snip discussion about removing PCI code from ne.c] > [ I've several other 8390 related patches I've been sitting on - trying > to not contribute to the delay of 2.4.0 unless explicitly asked, such > as the 8390.h get_module_symbol deletion. Other 8390 patches I have > are a separated Tx timeout for 8390.c, kill off dev->rmem_start/end > and use ioremap() where required, and replace old check/request_region() > with code that makes use of the newer resource structures. ] I'd thought it was quite important to get drivers doing ioremap() properly before 2.4.0, since the whinging messages along the lines of "io mapaddr 0x????? not valid at ..." are only really going to be tolerated in a development kernel, and will look a bit shoddy in 2.4.0. The complaining has been there for quite a while, so we really should have got our finger out and done the ioremap() thing (or at least used isa_xxx functions) where needed. I agree, however, that thinking seriously hard before delaying 2.4.0 now is a Good Thing (TM). -- Peter Denison <peterd@pnd-pc.demon.co.uk> Linux Driver for Promise DC4030VL cards. See http://www.pnd-pc.demon.co.uk/promise/promise.html for details - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
