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: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:24:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081002112413.GL13822@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081002074915.GA13602@deprecation.cyrius.com>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:49:15AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> [2008-09-30 10:13]:
> > Huh? I've looked into it. ARM and MIPS provide half of an API but not
> > the other half. These architectures are broken.
>
> Maybe, but the point is that advansys was marked as BROKEN on !X86_32
> before and now it's not, so the ARM/MIPS compilation errors show up
> and that's a regression. What you say is a good argument for my patch
> to disable advansys for ARM/MIPS in Kconfig.
No, ARM and MIPS need to just add stub functions that do nothing.
--
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."
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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
2008-10-02 7:49 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-10-02 11:24 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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