Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:12:23 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9 |
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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.
Jeff
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