Re: [PATCH] au1k_ir - fix for 2.6

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:54:40PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This fixes some of the issues with the Alchemy irda driver for MIPS on
> 2.6.0-test11.  Tested with cross compile.  This driver is probably obsolete
> but it is one of the two remaining users of dev_alloc
> 
> Changes:
>       * irqreturn_t for irq routine
>       * alloc_irdadev instead of dev_alloc
>       * should work as non module
> 
> Some mips build notes:
>       * no way to enable the device at present since drivers/net/irda/Kconfig
>         expects MIPS_A1000 and arch/mips/Kconfig defines SOC_AU1000!
>       * include/asm-mips/timex.h does not define CLOCK_TICK_RATE for this
>         that type.  Code should probably be:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_SGI_IP22
> #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE               1000000
> #else
> #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE               1193182
> #endif

        I don't have the hardware and I'm not familiar with MIPS, so
if the authors doesn't answer, we will merge your patch as is.
        Thanks...

        Jean