On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> Looks like i somehow never came around to answer you. Well the real problem
> with the IDE stuff is that it has started to affect totally unrelated parts
> of the kernel:
>
> 1. ide-geometry is forced into the block device code unconditionally. That
> breaks all archs which don't know about IDE drives (and don't care: ever
> seen an Apollo Domain or an Mac-68k or an IBM S/390 with IDE drives?
^^^^^^^
Seen? No, but they exist. See drivers/block/macide.c. It's not in the
mainsteam kernel but you can find it in CVS at cvs.mac.linux-m68k.org. I
believe it's some of the PowerBooks that have IDE drives.
Cheers,
- Greg
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