From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Disable advansys on ARM and MIPS
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:13:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930161259.GA13822@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080930072354.GA24133@deprecation.cyrius.com>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:23:54AM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Commit 9d511a4b29de6764931343d03e493f2e04df0271 ("advansys: Changes to
> work on parisc") removed the "depends on BROKEN || X86_32" line from
> advansys' Kconfig entry. Unfortunately, this led to compilation errors
> on ARM and MIPS (that are not related). Since nobody looked into this
> issue since I reported it in January 2008 and Russell King said that
> the driver is completely broken on ARM, let's undo some of the damage
> caused by the removal of the "BROKEN" Kconfig depends by disabling the
> driver on ARM and MIPS.
Huh? I've looked into it. ARM and MIPS provide half of an API but not
the other half. These architectures are broken.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-30 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-30 7:23 [PATCH] scsi: Disable advansys on ARM and MIPS Martin Michlmayr
2008-09-30 7:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-30 11:31 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-09-30 16:13 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-10-02 7:49 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-10-02 11:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
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