From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262062AbTJFNZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:25:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262064AbTJFNZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:25:50 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:46722 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262062AbTJFNZs (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:25:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:27:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Otavio Salvador cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Normal Flopply should depend of ISA? In-Reply-To: <87he2n2gzq.fsf@retteb.casa> Message-ID: References: <87he2n2gzq.fsf@retteb.casa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm current have problem to use normal floppy disk in 2.6.0-test6-bk7 > and looking at last patchset I found one possible cause. > > --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Sep 25 11:33:27 2003 > +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Oct 2 00:12:22 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 right normal floppy depends of ISA? I'll include this by the moment > but I doesn't have any ISA hardware in my system. > > Thanks in Advance, > Otavio Yes. "ISA" has become to mean more than that old 70's era socket on the motherboard. Basically, it's a catch-all for any I/O that doesn't use PCI or AGP. It should probably be renamed to GPIO or OTHER! Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.