Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Mar 2002 02:08:11 +0100 | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | 2.5.6-pre2: ide.c doesn't build if no IDE chipsets chosen |
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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.6-pre2/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ide -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ide.c ide.c:161: parse error before "ide_pio_timings" ide.c:161: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `ide_pio_timings' ide.c:162: warning: braces around scalar initializer ide.c:162: warning: (near initialization for `ide_pio_timings[0]') ide.c:162: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer ide.c:162: warning: (near initialization for `ide_pio_timings[0]') ide.c:162: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer ide.c:162: warning: (near initialization for `ide_pio_timings[0]') ide.c:163: warning: braces around scalar initializer ide.c:163: warning: (near initialization for `ide_pio_timings[1]') ide.c:163: warning: excess elements in scalar initializer ide.c:163: warning: (near initialization for `ide_pio_timings[1]')
etc. etc.
Turns out ide_pio_timings_t is only defined within a #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES block. That one seems to only kick in if I select at least one if the IDE chipsets. Mine is a PIIX4, but the configuration help seems to suggest I only set it if I suspect BIOS problems so I can hand-tune the chipset via hdparm; "if unsure, say N". I've been doing so for more time than I can remember without any issue and a spiffy hdparm output - this is the current 2.4.19-pre1 from which I built 2.5.6-pre2:
[root@dolphin root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.80 seconds =160.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.99 seconds = 16.04 MB/sec
I now built the kernel after selecting PIIXn support, but is this a bug in the dependencies or in the configuration help text for the PIIXn chipsets ?
Thanks,
--alessandro
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