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    SubjectSPARC64: Modular floppy?
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    As things stand today, floppy can't be modular (even though the
    configuration allows it!) because drivers/block/floppy.c references stuff
    in arch/sparc64/kernel/entry.S which isn't included if the floppy
    isn't. But that same code references symbols in floppy.c, so it doesn't
    help making it depend on floppy (modular or not).

    So, either the dependencies have to get fixed so floppy can't be modular
    for this architecture, or the relevant functions have to move from entry.S
    to the module. Last looks like a mess, splattering .S for sparc64 into
    drivers, or moving it to arch. Or is there some way of building a module
    from pieces in different directories under architecture control?

    Or this can be declared an endearing quirk of Linux on SPARC ;-)
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