linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE

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Message-Id: <200804272306.01052.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:06:00 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > 
> > > I do actually not care much how this gets resolved (we could even 
> > > ditch HAVE_IDE and provide asm/ide.h on all architectures) if there's 
> > > general agreement that this is the way to go.
> > 
> > Seems like a way to go now that all crazy IDE core code vs arch code
> > inter-dependiences have been fixed (the ideal solution would be to ditch
> > asm/ide.h completely but this requires some more time/work).
> 
> I invented HAVE_IDE in the past to make it trivial for arm to
> use drivers/Kconfig.
> And that incentive are not broken by your suggestion so fine with me.

Cool.

> But I really do not know about s390. They were the only one
> without IDE in the past.

They don't seem to support neither PCI nor ISA so I think that we
should just special case them (== make IDE depend on BLOCK && !S390).

Thanks,
Bart
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