On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:12:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: >> (not subscribed please CC me) >> >> I tried to compile sata_sil on a 2.6.27 kernel on powerpc32 and I found >> that it failed to compile -lots of dmi related errors. I found that I >> had to include the broken_systems handling code in #ifdef CONFIG_DMI >> (DMI is not supported on platforms other than i386/x86_64). >> >> Lennert on #mklinux told me that this commit broke the non-dmi support, >> and that a similar patch to mine is used on ARM systems : >> >> commit e57db7bde7bff95ae812736ca00c73bd5271455b >> SATA Sil: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off >> >> With this patch, sata_sil compiles on ppc (and I guess on other >> platforms). I'm using it for a while with no problems with a Delock >> 4-port SATA PCI card. > > (CC'ing various Lennerts) I am not a Lennert, I am a Lennart. :) I didn't do it. > What is the breakage? > > Ideally the DMI subsystem should be provided wrappers for platforms > without DMI, rendering patches like this unnecessary. -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
