Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:20:11 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >>On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:45:32PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: >> >>>The chipset drivers will register lists of PCI-id's they can handle >>>instead of the single only global list found in ide-pci.c. >>> >>I think it'd be even better if the chipset drivers did the probing >>themselves, and once they find the IDE device, they can register it with >>the IDE core. Same as all the other subsystem do this. >> > > Yes. I've mentioned before converting the IDE driver into a sort of > structure, but it always boiled down to "that requires a complete > rewrite" reply to me... If someone accomplishes such, I would be happy.
Well, apparently it turned out to be true.
BTW> If you have any "dirt bag" of "unfinished" code going into this direction I would be quite happy to have a look at it ;-).
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