On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:17:25PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> Why not let someone that needs to know about these issues in on the point,
> please............
Looks like i somehow never came around to answer you. Well the real problem
with the IDE stuff is that it has started to affect totally unrelated parts
of the kernel:
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.
There you go...
Dominik
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