Re: pre-2.1.80-4 won't compile, and CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT oddity

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:04:05 -0600

Trevor Johnson writes:
> Compiling pre-2.1.80-3 with the ext2 compression patch gave the same
> errors. Here's my .config file. I don't want support for parallel port
> IDE, yet if I delete the CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT line, it gets added back by
> "make oldconfig" and others.

I see the same behaviour. Would the author please step up and take a
look at this code:

/* drivers/block/Config.in */
if [ "$CONFIG_PARPORT" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_PARPORT" = "n" ] ; then
define_bool CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT y
else
define_bool CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT m
fi

It seems rude to define CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT when CONFIG_PARPORT=n.
What's going on here?

Michael Chastain
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