Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9.
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:00:19
Message-Id: 20121028205219.GD3339@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9. by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 Hello, again!
2
3 On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:16:56PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
4 > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
5
6 > > All this seems rather strange. Why shouldn't I be able to use my floppy
7 > > drive?
8
9 > Your kernel config/setup has something really weird.
10
11 Yes. I'd mistakenly disabled CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API ("ISA-style DMA
12 support"), which BLK_DEV_FD was indirectly dependant on, via
13 ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC.
14
15 This wasn't apparent in 'make menuconfig'; I had to grep through lots of
16 Kconfig files to track this down.
17
18 It's now fixed. :-)
19
20 > ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC is a boolean variable that it's set automatically
21 > for you, since it's arch dependant. You cannot set it (nor unset it,
22 > AFAIK).
23
24 Thanks again for the help.
25
26 > Regards.
27 > --
28 > Canek Peláez Valdés
29
30 --
31 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).