From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: new ata_port_operations for .pmp_{read,write} ?
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:34:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C24560.4030608@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C1194D.7080601@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Yeah, exactly. I think what needs to be done is to separate out SFF
>> assumptions from core layer, factor out SFF-proper helpers and use them
>> to implement LLDs for quasi-SFF controllers.
>
>
> Thinking long term, I continue to hope that SFF support can eventually
> be separate into a sub-API, allowing people to disable (at compile time)
> SFF support completely if they don't need it.
..
I can think of a few more pressing things to disable before that.
Like ACPI and PMP. Modularizing those (or more crudely de-selecting them
at build time) would save a lot of memory on small embedded boxes.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 21:56 only one drive in a port multiplier system is being recognized Greg Hennessy
2007-11-12 2:58 ` Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <4738827D.9060405@pobox.com>
2007-11-13 1:09 ` What's needed for PMP support? Tejun Heo
2008-02-20 19:03 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-21 3:39 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-21 15:07 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-21 20:52 ` [PATCH] libata-pmp: clear hob for pmp register accesses Mark Lord
2008-02-21 21:51 ` saeed bishara
2008-02-22 1:40 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-24 5:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 0:31 ` What's needed for PMP support? Mark Lord
2008-02-22 0:32 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-22 1:57 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22 2:04 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-22 2:12 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22 2:25 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-22 2:27 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-22 3:52 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-22 4:22 ` new ata_port_operations for .pmp_{read,write} ? Mark Lord
2008-02-22 14:23 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-22 14:28 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-23 0:38 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-23 2:49 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-23 2:43 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-23 2:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 5:15 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-24 7:03 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-24 7:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-25 4:34 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-02-25 4:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-25 4:31 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-25 4:49 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-25 4:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-25 5:20 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-25 16:55 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-25 23:44 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-26 0:12 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 2:01 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22 9:57 ` What's needed for PMP support? Alan Cox
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