Normal Flopply should depend of ISA?

PATCH Otavio Salvador 2 participants 2 messages Oct 6, 2003 Block layer

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Otavio Salvador

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2003-10-06 03:16 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello folks,

I'm current have problem to use normal floppy disk in 2.6.0-test6-bk7 and looking at last patchset I found one possible cause.

drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Oct 2 00:12:22 2003 renamed from drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Sep 25 11:33:27 2003 +0 -0

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

config BLK_DEV_FD
tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
- depends on !X86_PC9800 && !ARCH_S390
+ depends on ISA || M68 || SPARC64
---help---
If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM

Is right normal floppy depends of ISA? I'll include this by the moment but I doesn't have any ISA hardware in my system.

Thanks in Advance,
Otavio

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Richard B. Johnson

2003-10-06 13:25 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 16 lines · Otavio Salvador

Hello folks,
I'm current have problem to use normal floppy disk in 2.6.0-test6-bk7 and looking at last patchset I found one possible cause.
drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Oct 2 00:12:22 2003 renamed from drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Sep 25 11:33:27 2003 +0 -0
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
config BLK_DEV_FD
tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
- depends on !X86_PC9800 && !ARCH_S390
+ depends on ISA || M68 || SPARC64
---help---
If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM

Quoted 5 lines

Is right normal floppy depends of ISA? I'll include this by the moment but I doesn't have any ISA hardware in my system.
Thanks in Advance,
Otavio

Yes. "ISA" has become to mean more than that old 70's era socket on the motherboard. Basically, it's a catch-all for any I/O that doesn't use PCI or AGP. It should probably be renamed to GPIO or OTHER!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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