Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758685AbXEXKxR (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 06:53:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755897AbXEXKxD (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 06:53:03 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:36403 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755855AbXEXKxB (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 06:53:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:55:49 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: IDE compile error Message-ID: <20070524115549.01c0e1ca@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <200705240145.38055.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20070515201914.16944e04.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070516185552.GA4086@stusta.de> <200705240145.38055.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 30 > > hd.c:(.init.text+0x44a7d): undefined reference to `drive_info' > > hd.c:(.init.text+0x44a89): undefined reference to `drive_info' > > hd.c:(.init.text+0x44a95): undefined reference to `drive_info' > > hd.c:(.init.text+0x44aa1): undefined reference to `drive_info' > > hd.c:(.init.text+0x44aad): undefined reference to `drive_info' > > drivers/built-in.o:hd.c:(.init.text+0x44ab9): more undefined references to `drive_info' follow > > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > Considering the fact that we have two more recent drivers with the same > > functionality, it might be an option to simply remove this driver... > > Care to send a patch? hd.c can drive MFM and RLL disks and drivers/ide cannot. Although it really wants burying further down the config tree the ability to read MFM and RLL disks when recovering ancient data is useful and people do actually use this driver now and then rescuing stuff like twenty year old datasets. It thus needs fixing not removing. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/