[BUILD FAILURE 05/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/macintosh/mediabay.o]
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
bzolnier at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 19:34:17 EST 2009
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 05:59:27 Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz writes:
>
> > mediabay shouldn't include <linux/ide.h> unconditionally so
> > remove the superfluous include from mediabay.c (<asm/mediabay.h>
> > will pull <linux/ide.h> in for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC=y).
>
> I don't like relying on second-hand imports like that. I prefer the
> previous patch, that made mediabay depend on CONFIG_BLOCK.
I missed it somehow...
OK, I found it now and it should fix the problem as well.
> BTW, if including <linux/ide.h> causes an error when CONFIG_BLOCK=n,
> then there is a bug in <linux/ide.h>, IMO.
<linux/ide.h> is for drivers/ide only. mediabay lacks proper abstraction
layer and is probably the only abuser left.
Besides being a build fix my patch is a right step in cleaning this mess
so I'm going to apply it through ide tree.
Thanks,
Bart
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