Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 59 lines --] > > This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:11:44PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:20:34 +0100 >> > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > i, wearing my powerpc debian kernel maintainer hat, know that >> > > it is not needed on powerpc. >> > >> > This indicates that you are talking about a single kernel build - the >> > one provided by the kernel team, not powerpc kernels in general. >> >> Jonas, can you please explain me how you can come to the conclusion that >> ide-generic is *NEEDED* on powerpc, if there is at least one kernel config >> which does not have it and works perfectly ? >> >> I think you are just arguing for the sake of arguing, and failing to even try >> to understand the issue at hand ? > > Oh look, why are you still fighting about this? It seems to me that the > real problem is that the via module doesn't declare a relation to > ide-generic in situations where it actually does need it. Why not fix > the kernel, so that yaird doesn't have to bend over backwards? Not that > I really care either way, but it does seem to me to be cleaner to fix > the underlying problem rather than adding increasingly nonsensical > special case code somewhere else to work around it.
Can someone cook up a patch for this and send it upstream and/or here? -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
