Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:05:01 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Generic platform device IDE driver |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 16:45 +0900, ysgrifennodd Paul Mundt: > > This is intended purely for the simple NO_DMA ide_generic case.. nothing > > complicated. > > > > What do people think about this, is there a better way to do this? > > drivers/ide is going away over time.
That was the impression I got.
> I think the concept is nice and it's sort of reflected in the libata > VLB drivers. I think it would be a very good way to get good platform > drivers for libata for the embedded platforms. > Ok, I wasn't sure if libata was intended for anything outside of the SATA case (especially non-PCI), but if that's the way to go, I'll look at hacking something up under libata.
> Moving the existing drivers/ide stuff to a new drivers/ide variant is > wasted work however. > That's what I figured, thanks for clearing it up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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