On 7/30/07, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:09:33 +1000
>
> > 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.
Forgive my utter ignorance, but surely setting it to be a bool would
be sufficient until the underlying problem can be fixed.
Possibly something like the following patch: (make menuconfig tested only)
(note that this is not a serious patch, yet, and probably has it's
tabs and line endings messed up due to being pasted into gMail)
====
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index a4a3119..3289ca0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ if BLK_DEV
config BLK_DEV_FD
tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
- depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
+ depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC && !SPARC
---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
@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ config BLK_DEV_FD
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called floppy.
+config BLK_DEV_FD_SPARC
+ bool "Normal floppy disk support"
+ depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC && SPARC
+ ---help---
+ If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your Sparc board under
+ Linux, say Y. Information about this driver is contained in
+ <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>. That file also contains the location
+ of the Floppy driver FAQ as well as location of the fdutils package
+ used to configure additional parameters of the driver at run time.
+
config AMIGA_FLOPPY
tristate "Amiga floppy support"
depends on AMIGA
diff --git a/drivers/block/Makefile b/drivers/block/Makefile
index 014e721..8a9cf99 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/block/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_MAC_FLOPPY) += swim3.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD) += floppy.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD_SPARC) += floppy.o
obj-$(CONFIG_AMIGA_FLOPPY) += amiflop.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PS3_DISK) += ps3disk.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ATARI_FLOPPY) += ataflop.o
====
I understand though if this is an utterly stupid idea, and that this
is completely and totally against all forms of policy that I've not
read yet.
Thanks,
--
Julian Calaby
Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx
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