From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Disable advansys on ARM and MIPS Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:13:00 -0600 Message-ID: <20080930161259.GA13822@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080930072354.GA24133@deprecation.cyrius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:42813 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752645AbYI3QNR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:13:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080930072354.GA24133@deprecation.cyrius.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Michlmayr Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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."