From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 19 16:42:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E658216A49A for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (mail-gw4.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E091F43D66 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5JGg2AV014080; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:42:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5JGg2T3048246; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:42:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5JGg2Mn048245; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:42:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Dmitry Morozovsky In-Reply-To: <20060619024759.I13558@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20060619024759.I13558@woozle.rinet.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:42:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1150735321.47111.16.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: puc and sio X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:42:09 -0000 On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 02:56 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Dear colelagues, > > playing with puc compatible MOXA card I found that it's rather useless with > contemporary DEFAULT kernel: > > - sio compiled in, puc as module - puc identified, but no sio ports detected, > even when puc.ko is loaded by loader > - sio and puc both loaded as modules - all sio ports detected, but comconsole > cannot be activated > - sio and puc compiled in kernel - all work flawlessly > > Maybe it's time to consider including puc in GENERIC? Yes - this has been brought up a few times before. Another alternative is the patch in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-December/058909.html - but there was at least one objection to it. I'm not convinced the current status quo is acceptable, though. Gavin