"Chris Bednar wrote:"
> Sorry for the repeat... I submitted this a couple
> of days ago, but I probably should have targetted a
> couple of people, so I'll do that now.
>
> The point is that there's some pollution in arch/ppc/config.in
> that doesn't allow a G4 user (for example) to configure a
> host of PCI devices. The problem is that both branches of a
> conditional are evaluated, so only the second ever matters.
> The thing looks perfectly valid to a shell-script writer's eye,
> but it doesn't work here.
This is a xconfig feature. xconfig stores values for dependancy disabled
variables changing the variable values (they are not equal to "n" neither
undefined). That way the following (otherwise config-langauage.txt
compliant) cases do not work:
- when the same config variable is used in different active instructions
(bool, tristate, dep_*, etc), even if they depend on contradictional
conditions), eg:
- when define_* instruction is located *before* an active instruction using
the same variable (your example).
Fixing xconfig in both cases would need its total rewrite so, IMHO, it is not
worth to do it. I see two solutions of this problem:
1. reverse the condition (simpler, but with a side effect):
if [ "$CONFIG_6xx" != "y" -a "$CONFIG_PPC64BRIDGE" != "y" ]; then
bool 'QSpan PCI' CONFIG_PCI
else
define_bool CONFIG_PCI y
fi
2. use other temporary config variables to handle this case (more
complicated, but working better):
unset CONFIG_PCI_6XX
...
if [ "$CONFIG_6xx" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_PPC64BRIDGE" = "y" ]; then
define_bool CONFIG_PCI_6XX y
else
# CONFIG_8xx
bool 'QSpan PCI' CONFIG_PCI_8XX
fi
...
if [ "$CONFIG_PCI_6XX" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_PCI_8XX" = "y" ]; then
define_bool CONFIG_PCI y
else
define_bool CONFIG_PCI n
fi
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Chris Bednar wrote:
> > The following is a little patch I've been having to
> > do to get development kernels to configure PCI right on
> > my G4. I know it's not the right thing to do, but I've
> > never managed to figure out what's wrong with the original;
> > maybe somebody who understands config-speak will know.
> >
> > Anyway, without this trick, I can't configure
> > tulip ethernet, firewire, etc, so I'm still wondering
> > if it's just all a big mistake on my part - surely
> > someone else should have hit this problem...
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > --- linux-2.4.0-test8-pmac/arch/ppc/config.in-pciconf-prepatch Mon Aug 28 18:56:02 2000
> > +++ linux-2.4.0-test8-pmac/arch/ppc/config.in Sat Sep 9 11:16:38 2000
> > @@ -106,9 +106,9 @@
> > else
> > if [ "$CONFIG_6xx" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_PPC64BRIDGE" = "y" ]; then
> > define_bool CONFIG_PCI y
> > - else
> > - # CONFIG_8xx
> > - bool 'QSpan PCI' CONFIG_PCI
> > +# -?huh?- else
> > +# -?huh?- # CONFIG_8xx
> > +# -?huh?- bool 'QSpan PCI' CONFIG_PCI
> > fi
> > fi
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