From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:54:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:54:49 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:24069 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:54:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3CDAD35A.6070900@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 21:51:54 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH & call for help: Marking ISA only drivers In-Reply-To: <20020509203719.A3746@averell> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Andi Kleen napisa?: > Hallo, > > This patch tries to make most ISA only drivers dependent on CONFIG_ISA. If only for the fact that it allows you to don't look at archaic hardware configuration options makes it a good idea I think. Bus is bus if we have CONFIG_PCI, we should have CONFIG_ISA as well. > The motivation is that it is a lot of work to get old drivers to compile > meaningfully (at least without warnings, not even testing them) on x86-64 > and a lot of them are obviously not 64bit safe. As it is very unlikely > that x86-64 boxes will ever have ISA slots[1] one simple way for that > is just removing the old ISA drivers from the configuration. > > 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. Plase add mcd and mcdx - CD-ROM drivers. Both of them required an special "controller" card, which was indeed ISA based.