From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:24:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41781B13.3030803@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e041021121317083a3a@mail.gmail.com>
Okay, patch withdrawn.
I'll just apply it to my own kernels for my own use.
Whatever happended to the days when Linux *wanted* more
drivers and such?
Oh well..
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 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)
>
> Bartlomiej
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 18:44 [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor Mark Lord
2004-10-21 19:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 20:24 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2004-10-21 20:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 20:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 21:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 22:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 21:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 21:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 22:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 23:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-21 21:04 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-21 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 22:49 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 22:57 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-22 0:07 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22 0:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-22 0:20 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22 0:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-23 11:08 ` Mark Lord
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