Re: PATCH & call for help: Marking ISA only drivers

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:33:21PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote:
> > BTW I think CONFIG_ISA would be an useful configuration option for 
> > i386 too - at least most modern PCs do not come with ISA slots anymore.
> 
> ISA slots != ISA devices
> 
> And ISA stuff hanging off things like chipset glue busses is everywhere
> 
> > +if [ "$CONFIG_ISA" = "y" ]; then
> > +   dep_tristate 'Adaptec AHA152X/2825 support' CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X $CONFIG_SCSI
> 
> 2825 is not ISA bus

What then ?

> 
> > +# does not use pci dma and seems to be isa/onboard only for old machines
> > +if [ "$CONFIG_X86_64" != "y" ]; then
> > +  dep_tristate 'AM53/79C974 PCI SCSI support' CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 $CONFIG_SCSI $CONFIG_PCI
> > +fi
> 
> Thats PCI.

But seems to be not 64bit safe and miss pci dma support (note the CONFIG_X86_64). 

> 
> > +if [ "$CONFIG_ISA" = "y" ]; then
> > +  dep_tristate 'Generic NCR5380/53c400 SCSI support' CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 $CONFIG_SCSI
> > +  if [ "$CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380" != "n" ]; then
> 
> This is used in multiple non ISA situations.

Only on ancient motherboards (I remember having it on some really old EISA
machine) and non PC devices, no ? 
I'm hoping the non PC users will add their perspective architecture again.

-Andi