Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:15:04 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.36-pre on SPARC |
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> 1. ide-geometry is forced into the block device code unconditionally. That > breaks all archs which don't know about IDE drives (and don't care: ever > seen an Apollo Domain or an Mac-68k or an IBM S/390 with IDE drives? and > sparc doesn't need it either, newer Ultra's have IDE but to my knowledge > none of the older 32bit SPARCs). > > My suggestion: make it conditional on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE... > > 2. linux/ide.h is included by fs/partitions/msdos.c. This breaks compilation > also, because that requires asm-<arch>/hdreg.h which does not exist on all > archs (but could if need should be). > > So the problem is: keep the IDE stuff out of where it does not belong.
I agree. It is the only thing preventing sparc32 from compiling now.
Anton
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