Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:45:56 -0500 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Submitting PROMISE IDE Controllers Driver Patch |
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:35:12PM +0800, Hank Yang wrote: > We do hope the linux kernel add some code on ide-pci.c like following. > > void __init ide_scan_pcidev (struct pci_dev *dev) > { > ide_pci_devid_t devid; > ide_pci_device_t *d; > > devid.vid = dev->vendor; > devid.did = dev->device; > for (d = ide_pci_chipsets; d->devid.vid && !IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d->devid, > devid); ++d); > //Ignored by Promise > if ((dev->vendor==PCI_VENDOR_ID_PROMISE) && ((dev->class > >>8)==PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_RAID)) > { > printk("%s: ignored FastTrak series by PROMISE.\n", d->name); > return; > } > > Then, we won't affect other IDE controller or ATA-RAID controllers. > We can provide our ATA-RAID controller's driver by our own.
send the source under GPL first. Until then people need the linux ataraid driver for promise.
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