From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262196AbTJIOGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbTJIOGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:06:20 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:45473 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262196AbTJIOGQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:06:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:05:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Mikael Pettersson 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 Message-Id: <20031009070505.00470202.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16261.25288.125075.508225@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <16261.25288.125075.508225@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mikael Pettersson 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?