Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:24:18 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface |
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Hello, I wrote:
>>>>> Also, what mmio-ide in the compat properly means in the context >>>>>of ide_platform which is able to handle both port and memory mapped >>>>>IDE.
>>>>I/O-space is only valid in the context of PCI, ISA, or similar buses, >>>>and >>>>the bus-specific reg format indicates whether it's mmio-space or >>>>io-space.
>>> You could save time on lecturing me (and use it to look on the >>>driver ;-).
>>Sorry, I misread the question as being a mismatch between the >>capabilities of the device binding and the driver, not about the >>specific compatible name.
> That too. :-)
>>Something like "generic-ide" would probably be better.
> I strongly disagree with "generic" part. The generic IDE could only be > said of 1:1 I/O mapped IDE ports, not about this fancy mapping.
BTW, there's already something called drivers/ide/ide-generic.c... :-)
MBR, Sergei
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