Re: 2.3.99-3/3 IDE link problems (+msdos partitions)

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 14:38:49 EST


Okay one down, many to go.......

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > add to "fs/partitions/msdos.c"
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_IDE
> > #include <linux/ide.h>
> > #endif /* CONFIG_IDE */
>
> Note that there's already `#include <linux/ide.h> /* IDE xlate */' at the top.
> I replaced it with the conditional include you mentioned above.
>
> > replace all
> >
> > #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE) || defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODULE)
> > #endif /* (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE) || (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODULE) */
> >
> > with
> >
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_IDE
> > #endif /* CONFIG_IDE */
> >
> > Then tell me what happens, this fixed the issue but I have not submitted
> > it yet......nailing other boogers!!!!!!!
>
> Well, this fixes the link problem.
>
> But that's only part of the problem: now the modular IDE driver can no longer
> handle disks that need the ide_xlate_1024() trick.
>
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > ide-geometry.o (always compiled in the kernel) needs current_capacity() and
> > > > get_info_ptr(), which are defined in ide.c.
> > > >
> > > > However, if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m and CONFIG_IDE=y, ide.o is compiled as a
> > > > module causing a kernel link failure.
> > >
> > > Retrying with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=m and CONFIG_IDE=m showed an even worse
> > > problem: fs/partitions/msdos.c needs ide_xlate_1024(), which is defined in
> > > ide-geometry.o, but the latter file is compiled as a module if CONFIG_IDE=m.
> > >
> > > Time to drop IDE from the .config completely...
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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