As things stand today, floppy can't be modular (even though the configuration allows it!) because drivers/block/floppy.c references stuff in arch/sparc64/kernel/entry.S which isn't included if the floppy isn't. But that same code references symbols in floppy.c, so it doesn't help making it depend on floppy (modular or not).
So, either the dependencies have to get fixed so floppy can't be modular for this architecture, or the relevant functions have to move from entry.S to the module. Last looks like a mess, splattering .S for sparc64 into drivers, or moving it to arch. Or is there some way of building a module from pieces in different directories under architecture control? Or this can be declared an endearing quirk of Linux on SPARC ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
