From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:14:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable legacy floppy related ioctl32s Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:10:23 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: | On Tuesday 30 September 2003 3:01 pm, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:55:00 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas 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. -- ~Randy