Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 16:23:01 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | [PATCH] 2.5.17 IDE 70 |
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Sh*t I did forget to adjust the topic line. So here it is again just for reassurance.
Thu May 23 14:37:50 CEST 2002 ide-clean-70
- Apply host chip driver cleanups by Bartomiej Zonierkiewicz.
- Take the draft device type driver implementation from Adam Richter and make it actually work with some of the drivers we have at hand. Quite a lot of it was fixed by me as well to have the desired effects.
We have added a attach method for the sub device type drivers to make it possible dor sub device type drivers to attach devices to the overall infrastructure. UNIX has something like this SCSI code is implementing something like this, just for some unknown reasons Linux block device operations don't have it...
- ide_drive_t is finally gone. Please use struct ata_device instead.
Hint the ide.h specific byte type should go over time as well, sine there is no need to invent something already handled by the kernel. Please use the unambigious u8 type instead where possible.
- Add a bit of documentation about cabling issues. ide.txt needs a lot of improvement at some time still.
Well the fact that this is collecting many bits from different people again makes this patch unfortunately rather big. I compress it therefore, since sending the patches to lkml turned out the be sucsessfull in attracting more people to the overall effort.
Once again I would like to express my many thanks to all of them who are involved!.
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