From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Gaston, Jason D" <jason.d.gaston@intel.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: no need to add new DID's to AHCI driver?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:53:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CCDA80.7040109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CC8C31.3040502@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Gaston, Jason D wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Now that the AHCI driver has support for all controllers with the 0x0106
>> (AHCI) class code, I am not planning on adding controller DeviceID's for
>> AHCI controllers. I want to verify that this is the correct course of
>> action.
>>
>> Note: I still will have to add the Intel SW "RAID" controller
>> DeviceID's as they have a 0x0104 (RAID) class code.
>
> Yep, that's fine -- and the encouraged direction.
>
> The ideal situation for users is when new hardware is "automagically"
> supported, without needing any driver PCI ID modifications at all.
One remaining hurdle tho is the distinction between board_ahci and
board_ahci_pi (whether to honor PORTS_IMPL or not). AHCI class matching
uses board_ahci so PI will be ignored by default. There's a pending
patch which removes this distinction, so this won't be a problem after
the patch is merged.
--
tejun
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 18:19 no need to add new DID's to AHCI driver? Gaston, Jason D
2007-08-22 19:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-23 0:53 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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