3Com Megahertz 3CXM756 PCMCIA modem on 5.3

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <4202A278.80707 at att.net>
            Duane Winner <dwinner-lists at att.net> writes:
: 
: >
: > I was just wondering what the status of this is, if any. I'm about 
: > commit our in-house installation procedures for 5.3, and others on my 
: > team are going to want to migrate soon, but lack of PPP support on our 
: > laptops isn't going to fly over too well, especially now that there is 
: > some travelling going on. We want to stick to -release, as opposed to 
: > -stable.
: >
: > I was thinking, I figure we have three possible options:
: >
: > 1. If your patch is going to get merged into 5.3-release, that would 
: > be the best route; but if that isn't going to happen, or not soon:
: >
: > 2. Could we manually apply your patch to /usr/src after cvsup'ing 
: > before buildword/buildkernel?
: 
: For what it's worth, I answered my own question by finding version 
: 1.17.2.1 of exca.c up on the cvs tree and replaced 
: /usr/src/sys/dev/exca/exca.c in my 5.3 src tree. Rebuilt kernel, and 
: voila! I can use my modem on 5.3-release!

Yup.  That's the moral equivalent of applying the patch.

: Maybe not the most graceful way of going about it (and i'll have to 
: remember to watch this when I cvsup and get a patch for /usr/src, 
: right?), but it works for me and is close for folk music.

I've been debating applying this to the 5.3 errata branch.  It is a
lot of extra work given the number of files that I touched to fix
other pccard related problems.  I'm just not sure that it is worth it
when I can spend that time fixing other problems that I'm aware of in
current's pccard stack...

: I'm assuming this will make it into 5.4?

Yes.

Warner