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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:15:34PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:16:59PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > It's plain wrong for PCMCIA to select HAVE_IDE that implies e.g. the
> > > availability of an asm/ide.h
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > 9cdb66112488bc0c6e1d528444d3ba30d5b0487f diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig b/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
> > > index 8b22281..519b4ff 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig
> > > @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ config PCMCIA_DEBUG
> > > config PCMCIA
> > > tristate "16-bit PCMCIA support"
> > > select CRC32
> > > - select HAVE_IDE
> > > default y
> >
> > I did this when introducing HAVE_IDE.
> > But I do not recall why and the rationale for removing it
> > seems fine to me.
>
> IIRC it was needed for some arm platforms which don't select HAVE_IDE
> explicetely but I don't know if this is still the case, pinging Russell.

If that is so then it is so - the only way to find out is work out
why we ended up with HAVE_IDE and what it was transformed from.

To just ask me whether it's still the case, I've absolutely no idea -
there's no way in hell for me to be able to track these kinds of
dependencies.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:


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