From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface.
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:04:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491D4D2F.4010802@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081114011851.1fa01a33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
>> OTOH, CF support via self-contained driver is certainly a waste of code
>> since IDE core and (libata) are here to drive the CF devices as well.
>> What we need is a "normal" IDE or libata (at your option) driver.
>>
>
> A libata driver would be nice and probably easiest to do as you don't
> have to pretend to be close to old style taskfile IDE for a PC.
>
AFAIU you don't need to pretend that with IDE as well now.
> I am not convinced there is no case for a 'dumb' small CF driver, but if
> so the chipset code and the core code need to be separated as the other
> requests I see for this are different embedded boxes wanting to keep
> codesize down.
>
Yeah, that might be worth considering...
> Alan
>
WBR, Sergei
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-14 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-13 19:25 [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface David Daney
2008-11-14 0:05 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-11-14 0:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-11-14 0:31 ` David Daney
2008-11-14 10:22 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-11-14 1:18 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-14 10:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
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