Re: 2.6.17-mm6

[Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>]

Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> the statistic infrastructure is required when compiling the ZFCP driver on
>> zSeries.
>> ---
>>  drivers/scsi/Kconfig |    1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> Index: 2.6.17-mm6/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
>> ===================================================================
>> --- 2.6.17-mm6.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
>> +++ 2.6.17-mm6/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
>> @@ -2200,6 +2200,7 @@ config ZFCP
>>  	tristate "FCP host bus adapter driver for IBM eServer zSeries"
>>  	depends on S390 && QDIO && SCSI
>>  	select SCSI_FC_ATTRS
>> +	select STATISTICS
>>  	help
>>            If you want to access SCSI devices attached to your IBM eServer
>>            zSeries by means of Fibre Channel interfaces say Y.
> 
> That's the wrong approach. We rather need some no-op defines that make
> this compile for !CONFIG_STATISTICS. Martin is working on it, I think.

yes, you're right.

My approach is the shortest path to fix this -mm6 :

statistics-infrastructure-exploitation-zfcp.patch

thanks,

C.


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