Re: [2.5 patch] let COMX depend on PROC_FS

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:49:08PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 04:40:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >From drivers/net/wan/comx.c:
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> > ...
> > #ifndef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> > #error For now, COMX really needs the /proc filesystem
> > #endif
> > ...
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> > 
> > The following patch add a dependency to Kconfig to avoid compile errors 
> > with CONFIG_COMX and !CONFIG_PROC_FS:
> 
> Actually it still doesn't link with this because the procfs code in it
> is utter crap and relies on a symbol proc_get_inode that isn't exported
> since 2.3.  As no one cared for this driver over years I'd suggest just
> removing it.

The proc_get_inode link problem only affects the modular build of 
comx.c .

The static build works fine in both 2.4 and 2.5.

cu
Adrian

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