Re: [PATCH] disable legacy floppy related ioctl32s

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:10:23 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:

| On Tuesday 30 September 2003 3:01 pm, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:55:00 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
| > | BTW, it looks like one can still select legacy floppy support on ia64:
| > | 
| > | config BLK_DEV_FD
| > |         tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
| > |         depends on !X86_PC9800 && !ARCH_S390
| > 
| > Yes, I submitted a patch for that (and others), but it was rejected
| > by reasoning that we can't and don't want to keep up with fixing
| > all of these...
| 
| Heh.  Your patch (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.3/0320.html)
| contained:
| 
| 	 config BLK_DEV_FD
| 	 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
| 	 - depends on !X86_PC9800
| 	 + depends on !X86_PC9800 && !IA64
| 
| so obviously somebody decided it was reasonable to do it for s390, but
| not for ia64 :-)  I didn't see the rejection rationale on the list, but
| it's hard enough to build a working .config without distractions like
| being asked about drivers that can't possibly work (and probably don't
| even compile) on my architecture.

Yes, it was a private rejection.
Yes, one does not always get the same answer when asked multiple times.

I'm all for it, but some people weren't.

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~Randy