While examining bug 139406 I tried to switch to vanilla-sources-2.6.18_rc2 and use mISDN. For this I had to patch the mISDN sources to work without devfs. While I was at it, I got the latest CVS as well. Seems to work so far, although right now I'm back to gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r2.
Created attachment 92199 [details, diff] nodevfs.patch This patch simply removes any devfs related function calls from drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/udevice.c which seems to work well enough.
Created attachment 92200 [details] misdn-20060715.ebuild This ebuild changes the following in relation to 20060321: 1. apply the patch from comment 1 2. add new configurable modules HFCMINI and NETJET, as listed in the mISDN Makefile 3. changed all driver configs from y to m as set in the mISDN Makefile 4. removed old patches that are no longer needed 5. changed udev syntax from KERNEL="obj-*" to KERNEL=="obj-*"
http://genstef.homelinux.org/local/net-dialup/misdn/ I also have some ebuilds here - but they are a bit outdated and I do not add them because they stopped working for me a month ago. I will try with your ebuild later. Thanks for the report :)
(In reply to comment #3) > I also have some ebuilds here - but they are a bit outdated and I do not add > them because they stopped working for me a month ago. Could it be they stopped working after devfs has been removed in 2.6.13? Maybe we could combine them, if there are useful improvements in yours. For example, how about this NEWCTRL_BRANCH? What is that about? Useful?
yeah, merging both ebuilds sounds good. Could you give it a try? My ebuild has the big difference that it uses the misdn-init scripts provided in the misdn cvs and thus makes gentoo compatible with the other distributions. If that works out I would like to go that route.
Can you please also get this patch upstream? http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.isdn.i4l.devel
(In reply to comment #6) > Can you please also get this patch upstream? > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.isdn.i4l.devel I thought "upstream" in this case would have been isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de I did send my patch there, although mailman garbled my signature and pipermail stripped my body... :-( Anyway, I'll gladly submit this to the newsgroup as well. Oh, after submitting it to .devel, I found my original mail got mirrored to .user as well: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.isdn.i4l.user/2221 Tough luck. but I guess I won't further spam the lists by mentioning this double post...
I have committed a merged version to cvs, I hope it works for you :) I also changed the patch to use kernel version 2.6.18 and not 2.6.13 Thanks for the bug!
(In reply to comment #8) > I have committed a merged version to cvs, You forgot to add the nodevfs patch to the portage tree. Otherwise thanks! > I hope it works for you :) Compiled all right, for my 2.6.17.6 vanilla sources. I'll see if it works after rebooting my system. > I also changed the patch to use kernel version 2.6.18 and not 2.6.13 So the functions were kept in the kernel for backwards compatibility till 2.6.18? Looks that way, otherwise it would not have compiled for me right now.
(In reply to comment #8) > I have committed a merged version to cvs, I hope it works for you :) No, it does not work. If I emerge this ebuild and start capi, capiinfo returns no controllers present, and capisuite won't start. If I remove /etc/modules.d/misdn, run "modules-update force", and revert to simply loading the required modules myself (in autoload or in a small init script), things work fine. So far I haven't figured out the difference between those two approaches, and why exactly yours fails. I guess this will need some further investigation with a lot of reboots, not a thing I'm looking forward to.
