From: "Luck, Tony" The HP_SIMSCSI driver can't be built as a module (unhealthy dependencies on things that shouldn't really be exported). AMD and nVidia IDE support doesn't sound too useful for ia64 either :-) With these two patches allmodconfig builds (but takes 11m24s, ouch!) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Cc: Judith Lebzelter Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig | 4 ++-- drivers/ide/Kconfig | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig~ia64-fix-allmodconfig-build arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig --- a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig~ia64-fix-allmodconfig-build +++ a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ config HP_SIMSERIAL_CONSOLE depends on HP_SIMSERIAL config HP_SIMSCSI - tristate "Simulated SCSI disk" - depends on SCSI + bool "Simulated SCSI disk" + depends on SCSI=y endmenu diff -puN drivers/ide/Kconfig~ia64-fix-allmodconfig-build drivers/ide/Kconfig --- a/drivers/ide/Kconfig~ia64-fix-allmodconfig-build +++ a/drivers/ide/Kconfig @@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ config WDC_ALI15X3 config BLK_DEV_AMD74XX tristate "AMD and nVidia IDE support" + depends on X86 help This driver adds explicit support for AMD-7xx and AMD-8111 chips and also for the nVidia nForce chip. This allows the kernel to _