On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Julian Calaby wrote:
On 7/29/07, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The floppy driver cannot be built as a module on sparc32, you must
build it in statically because it references an interrupt handler
which must be coded in assembler which therefore cannot be easily
exported to modules.
Stupid question, but: Why is it possible to select it to compile as a
module when it cannot?
Because no one has got arround to fixing the build option :-).
Sparc32 is only partially maintained at the moment so little things like
this get left out of updates.
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Julian Calaby
Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx
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