[PATCH] mark ide-cs broken

[PATCH] mark ide-cs broken

[Russell King]

Hi,

After receiving this bug report: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457
and talking to Arjan, it would appear that IDECS is known to be broken.
Arjan has confirmed that he sees the same behaviour with his PCMCIA CDROM
using both 2.6 and 2.4.2x kernels.

Therefore, I suggest that we mark it broken.  The patch below is for 2.6.1
kernels.

If anyone wants to know the details of why it's broken, please don't mail
me - I don't know - the best I can do is refer you to the above URL.

As far as bug 1457 goes - I'll reassign it to "Drivers - Other" later today
since we don't have an IDE component in bugme.

--- orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig	Fri Jan  9 22:39:21 2004
+++ linux/drivers/ide/Kconfig	Sun Jan 11 11:00:11 2004
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
 
 config BLK_DEV_IDECS
 	tristate "PCMCIA IDE support"
-	depends on PCMCIA
+	depends on PCMCIA && BROKEN
 	help
 	  Support for outboard IDE disks, tape drives, and CD-ROM drives
 	  connected through a  PCMCIA card.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

Re: [PATCH] mark ide-cs broken

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:16:07AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After receiving this bug report: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457
> and talking to Arjan, it would appear that IDECS is known to be broken.
> Arjan has confirmed that he sees the same behaviour with his PCMCIA CDROM
> using both 2.6 and 2.4.2x kernels.
> 
> Therefore, I suggest that we mark it broken.  The patch below is for 2.6.1
> kernels.

It's still working for me as of 2.6.0 with stock kernel and CF, so
this is probably premature.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting

Re: [PATCH] mark ide-cs broken

[Russell King]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:16:07AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After receiving this bug report: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457
> > and talking to Arjan, it would appear that IDECS is known to be broken.
> > Arjan has confirmed that he sees the same behaviour with his PCMCIA CDROM
> > using both 2.6 and 2.4.2x kernels.
> > 
> > Therefore, I suggest that we mark it broken.  The patch below is for 2.6.1
> > kernels.
> 
> It's still working for me as of 2.6.0 with stock kernel and CF, so
> this is probably premature.

Ok.  However, we need some way of quiescing/directing bug reports for
ide-cs with real disks to the right department (that being the IDE
department, not the PCMCIA department.)

Any better suggestions?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core