Re: [PATCH] Offer Sibyte IDE driver only on platforms that have IDE

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:47:23AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> [PATCH] Offer Sibyte IDE driver only on platforms that have IDE
> 
> Currently Kconfig allows you to select the Sibyte IDE driver on
> any SB1 based SOC platform.  However, not all of them actually
> have IDE.  Nor do they import the correct files needed to compile
> the Sibyte (SWARM) IDE driver, leading to the compilation failure
> below on a SB1A 1480 board.
> 
> The situation can be improved by adding a SIBYTE_HAS_IDE Kconfig
> variable and change the dependency of the Sibyte IDE driver
> accordingly.

I would really prefer to see runtime probing etc. as step towards a
generic Sibyte kernel.

  Ralf