Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:13:57 +0200 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor |
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please also cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
> An equivalent patch for 2.6.xx is being worked on.
generally it should be like that: 2.6.x first, 2.4.x later
> + * This is slightly peculiar, in that it is a PCI driver, > + * but is NOT an IDE PCI driver -- the IDE layer does not directly > + * support hot insertion/removal of PCI interfaces, so this driver > + * is unable to use the IDE PCI interfaces. Instead, it uses the > + * same interfaces as the ide-cs (PCMCIA) driver uses. > + * On the plus side, the driver is also smaller/simpler this way.
IDE layer doesn't support hot insertion/removal of _any_ interfaces
ide_unregister() calls are not allowed unless somebody fixes locking (Alan fixed many issues but some more work is still needed)
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