Re: Normal Flopply should depend of ISA?

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I'm current have problem to use normal floppy disk in 2.6.0-test6-bk7
> and looking at last patchset I found one possible cause.
>
> --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Sep 25 11:33:27 2003
> +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Oct 2 00:12:22 2003
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> config BLK_DEV_FD
> tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
> - depends on !X86_PC9800 && !ARCH_S390
> + depends on ISA || M68 || SPARC64
> ---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
>
> Is right normal floppy depends of ISA? I'll include this by the moment
> but I doesn't have any ISA hardware in my system.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Otavio

Yes. "ISA" has become to mean more than that old 70's era socket
on the motherboard. Basically, it's a catch-all for any I/O that
doesn't use PCI or AGP. It should probably be renamed to GPIO or
OTHER!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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