Re: ide.c problem w/2.4.0-test1-ac7

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 00:24:37 EST


Yep........killing that and a now interesting change in 8259.c code back
in 2.3.48

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, John Cagle wrote:

> Andre,
>
> Please pardon the intrusion, but I think there's a minor problem with
> ide.c Version 6.30.
>
> I'm trying to build the 2.4.0-test1-ac7 kernel, and with my particular
> .config (which does *not* have IDE DMA enabled) I run into a kernel
> linking problem with idedriver.o. It claims it cannot find the symbol
> 'ide_release_dma', which it won't because CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA isn't
> defined.
>
> I think the problem is caused by an invalid call to ide_release_dma in
> ide.c (when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA isn't defined).
>
> If you'll take a quick look at ide.c, you'll only find two places where
> 'ide_release_dma' is called. Only one of those instances has the proper
> '#if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA)'.
>
> Is this a problem?
>
> Thanks,
> John Cagle
> Principal Member Technical Staff
> Compaq Computer Corporation
> http://www.compaq.com/linux/
> (work email: john dot cagle at compaq dot com)
>
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Andre Hedrick
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