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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arun.sharma@intel.com, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test7 BLK_DEV_FD dependence on ISA breakage
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:05:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009070505.00470202.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16261.25288.125075.508225@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> wrote:
>
> This patch
> 
> --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig	Wed Oct  8 12:24:56 2003
> +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig	Wed Oct  8 12:24:56 2003
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  
>  config BLK_DEV_FD
>  	tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
> -	depends on !X86_PC9800 && !ARCH_S390
> +	depends on ISA || M68 || SPARC64
>  	---help---
>  	  If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
>  	  say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
> 
> is broken. 

Yeah, and there's been a metric mile of blab about it but I don't think
we've actually settled on a correct+complete solution.

Perhaps we should just back it out and watch more closely next time someone
tries to fix it?



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-08 19:47 Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze Linus Torvalds
2003-10-08 23:57 ` Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze (compile stats) John Cherry
2003-10-09 12:45 ` Linux 2.6.0-test7 - compile/boot success iain d broadfoot
2003-10-09 13:29 ` 2.6.0-test7 BLK_DEV_FD dependence on ISA breakage Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-09 14:05   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-09 18:04     ` Anton Blanchard
2003-10-09 18:18     ` Arun Sharma
2003-10-09 20:21       ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-10-10 11:55         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-13  4:52 ` Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze Rob Landley
2003-10-13  4:53 ` Deja vu Rob Landley
2003-10-13 17:34 ` Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze Olaf Hering
2003-10-13 20:50   ` gcc -msoft-float [Was: Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze] Sam Ravnborg
2003-10-14  8:12     ` Olaf Hering
2003-10-14  8:31       ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-10-14  8:50         ` Olaf Hering
2003-10-14 11:40   ` Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze Jakub Jelinek
2003-10-15 17:27 ` Linux 2.6.0-test7 - Suspend to Disk success Jonathan McDowell
2003-10-15 21:00   ` Daniele Venzano
2003-10-16 14:06     ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-18 17:35       ` Daniele Venzano
2003-10-18 17:54       ` Daniele Venzano
2003-10-18 18:01         ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-18 20:48           ` Daniele Venzano
2003-10-19  7:38           ` Daniele Venzano
2003-10-20 19:08             ` Patrick Mochel

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