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    SubjectRe: a few more "make xconfig" inconsistencies
    On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:

    > > [john@grabjohn.com]
    > >
    > > In 2.5.53, under Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE), if you select
    > > "Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative, Longshine, TEAC CDROM support", the
    > > help text says:
    > >
    > > "This driver can support up to four CD-ROM controller cards, and each
    > > card can support up to four CD-ROM drives; if you say Y here, you will
    > > be asked how many controller cards you have."
    > >
    > > The user is not prompted to specify how many controllers they have in
    > > 2.5.53, and in 2.4.20-pre2, there are separate options for the 2nd,
    > > 3rd, and 4th controllers.
    > >
    > > However, I've looked through the code, and I'm not sure if >1
    > > controller is actually supported anymore - a lot of the code for that
    > > seems to be commented out in 2.4.20-pre2, and completely removed in
    > > 2.5.53.
    >
    > You'll need to ask the driver's maintainer (if there is one at all,
    > that is).

    Well, someone seems to have changed the behaviour for 2.5, so perhaps the
    problem can be addressed if that person can be identified from the patch
    log.

    --
    bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
    CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
    Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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