APPLIED: [PATCH] UBUNTU: Add pata_macio to pata-modules

[Tim Gardner]

On 11/28/2011 06:09 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:15:12PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:37:44PM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> applied to Precise
>>
>> Thanks for applying this.
>>
>> Actually, though; would you consider simply building in pata_macio on
>> powerpc?  Booting a desktop CD in qemu runs into
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641210, and it looks as
>> though the Debian kernel maintainers felt that building the module in
>> was the simplest way around the lack of autoloading in this case.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Having read the description in that bug it does seem that these devices
> can be connected to PCI (discoverable) and some MACIO platform driver
> (non-discoverable).  Pretty much the only way to support those MACIO
> connected versions is to build this driver in; vile though that is.
>
> I have pushed a further update to precise switching this to =y.
>
> -apw

works for me.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com