Re: Build failures on a sparcstation10 with 2.6.23-rc1

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From: "Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:09:33 +1000

> 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?

There isn't an easy way to describe this in the Kconfig language
at this time.
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