From: James Nelson I could not locate the original author or any active support effort being done. This is definitely an orphaned driver. Signed-off-by: James Nelson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/Documentation/riscom8.txt | 40 ++++++++++---------------------------- 25-akpm/MAINTAINERS | 4 --- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/riscom8.txt~riscom8-update-staus-and-documentation-of-driver Documentation/riscom8.txt --- 25/Documentation/riscom8.txt~riscom8-update-staus-and-documentation-of-driver Mon Dec 13 14:28:11 2004 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/riscom8.txt Mon Dec 13 14:28:11 2004 @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ +* NOTE - this is an unmaintained driver. The original author cannot be located. + +SDL Communications is now SBS Technologies, and does not have any +information on these ancient ISA cards on their website. + +James Nelson - 12-12-2004 + This is the README for RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver - (C) 1994-1996 D.Gorodchanin (pgmdsg@ibi.com) + (C) 1994-1996 D.Gorodchanin See file LICENSE for terms and conditions. NOTE: English is not my native language. @@ -10,47 +17,20 @@ Misc. notes for RISCom/8 serial driver, 1) This driver can support up to 4 boards at time. Use string "riscom8=0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX,0xXXX" at LILO prompt, for setting I/O base addresses for boards. If you compile driver - as module use insmod options "iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=..." + as module use modprobe options "iobase=0xXXX iobase1=0xXXX iobase2=..." 2) The driver partially supports famous 'setserial' program, you can use almost any of its options, excluding port & irq settings. 3) There are some misc. defines at the beginning of riscom8.c, please read the comments and try to change some of them in case of problems. - + 4) I consider the current state of the driver as BETA. - If you REALLY think you found a bug, send me e-mail, I hope I'll - fix it. For any other problems please ask support@sdlcomm.com. 5) SDL Communications WWW page is http://www.sdlcomm.com. -6) You can use the script at the end of this file to create RISCom/8 devices. +6) You can use the MAKEDEV program to create RISCom/8 /dev/ttyL* entries. 7) Minor numbers for first board are 0-7, for second 8-15, etc. 22 Apr 1996. - --------------------------------cut here------------------------------------- -#!/bin/bash -NORMAL_DEVICE=/dev/ttyL -CALLOUT_DEVICE=/dev/cuL -NORMAL_MAJOR=48 -CALLOUT_MAJOR=49 - -echo "Creating devices... " -for i in 0 1 2 3; do - echo "Board No $[$i+1]" - for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do - k=$[ 8 * $i + $j] - rm -f $NORMAL_DEVICE$k - mknod $NORMAL_DEVICE$k c $NORMAL_MAJOR $k - chmod a+rw $NORMAL_DEVICE$k - echo -n $NORMAL_DEVICE$k" " - rm -f $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k - mknod $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k c $CALLOUT_MAJOR $k - chmod a+rw $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k - echo $CALLOUT_DEVICE$k - done -done -echo "done." --------------------------------cut here------------------------------------- diff -puN MAINTAINERS~riscom8-update-staus-and-documentation-of-driver MAINTAINERS --- 25/MAINTAINERS~riscom8-update-staus-and-documentation-of-driver Mon Dec 13 14:28:11 2004 +++ 25-akpm/MAINTAINERS Mon Dec 13 14:28:11 2004 @@ -1836,9 +1836,7 @@ L: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained RISCOM8 DRIVER -P: Dmitry Gorodchanin -L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -S: Maintained +S: Orphan RTLINUX REALTIME LINUX P: Victor Yodaiken _