Re: Patch to make 2.4.13 compile on s390

[Alan Cox]

> Do we actually have a maintainer for that thing?
> Or do we blindly apply whatever IBM bestows?

Sometimes generic fixes break stuff

> diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.13-0.2/Makefile linux-2.4.13-0.2-t1/Makefile
> --- linux-2.4.13-0.2/Makefile	Mon Oct 29 04:28:50 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.13-0.2-t1/Makefile	Mon Oct 29 05:00:08 2001
> diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.13-0.2/arch/s390/config.in linux-2.4.13-0.2-t1/arch/s390/config.in
> --- linux-2.4.13-0.2/arch/s390/config.in	Mon Oct 29 04:28:40 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.13-0.2-t1/arch/s390/config.in	Mon Oct 29 06:22:48 2001
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>  define_bool CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK y
>  define_bool CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM n
>  define_bool CONFIG_GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK n
> +define_bool CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA y

Please tell me where you find an S/390 mainframe with ISA bus. I think you
may have fixed the effect not the cause.