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Hello, Canek. |
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:16:56PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very |
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> > happy about this. Does anybody know why, or by whom? |
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> Nobody removed anything; it's still there, in 3.6.3. I'm not using it, |
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> but I can select it without problems. |
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> > This removal has been done in a somewhat peculiar manner. The config |
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> > option was called CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, and used to be at <Device |
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> > Drivers>/<Block Devices>. It is now not visible there. |
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> It's visible here. |
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> > However, Typing '/' BLK_DEV_FD in 'make menuconfig' returns its |
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> > documentation, saying BLK_DEV_FD is dependent upon |
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> > CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC. This latter variable isn't visible |
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> > anywhere. |
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> It's defined for you if the ARCHitecture (as the name implies) |
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> supports floppies. It's set =y in all my kernels. |
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But, what does the "architecture" actually mean? |
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> > I tried setting ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC by hand in .config, but that didn't |
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> > help. 'make menuconfig' just unset it again of its own accord. Then I |
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> > inserted BLK_DEV_FD into .config by hand and built the kernel. I haven't |
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> > tested it yet. |
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> > All this seems rather strange. Why shouldn't I be able to use my floppy |
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> > drive? |
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> Your kernel config/setup has something really weird. |
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OK. If I start the configuration afresh, I do indeed see the floppy disk |
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selector. :-) |
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> ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC is a boolean variable that it's set automatically |
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> for you, since it's arch dependant. You cannot set it (nor unset it, |
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> AFAIK). |
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Do you know where the source for 'make menuconfig' is in the source tree? |
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> May I recommend to completely uninstall your sources package and |
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> delete /usr/src/linux (after a proper backup, of course), install them |
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> again, and do a make oldconfig (after restoring your old .config)? |
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By starting again from scratch, it seems clear that the problem is in |
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some of the config options I have selected. |
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> Because ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC is something you should not to even think about. |
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I agree with you there. ;-) |
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Thanks for the help! |
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> Regards. |
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> -- |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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