Re: 2.5.55: static compilation of mxser.c doesn't work

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:12:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 14:03, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Hi Arnaldo,
> > 
> > the 2.5 Linux kernel contains your patch
> > 
> >    o mxser: add module_exit/module_init
> >    This fixes the compilation problem in 2.5
> > 
> > This patch renames mxser_init to mxser_module_init causing a compile 
> > error when trying to compile this driver statically into the kernel 
> > since mxser_init is still called from drivers/char/tty_io.c.
> 
> You should be able to kill the call from tty_io.c

Unfortunately I don't have the hardware to test whether the driver 
actually works but the patch below fixes the compilation.

cu
Adrian

--- linux-2.5.56/drivers/char/tty_io.c.old	2003-01-12 10:15:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.5.56/drivers/char/tty_io.c	2003-01-12 10:16:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -2372,9 +2372,6 @@
 	rs_8xx_init();
 #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */
 	pty_init();
-#ifdef CONFIG_MOXA_SMARTIO
-	mxser_init();
-#endif	
 #ifdef CONFIG_MOXA_INTELLIO
 	moxa_init();
 #endif