From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:04:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:62420 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23675272AbYKNKEm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:04:42 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.150.0.9]) by imap.sh.mvista.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5273ECC; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:04:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491D4D2F.4010802@ru.mvista.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:04:31 +0300 From: Sergei Shtylyov User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: David Daney , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips Subject: Re: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface. References: <491C7F28.2070507@caviumnetworks.com> <491CC0B6.8020400@ru.mvista.com> <20081114011851.1fa01a33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081114011851.1fa01a33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 21290 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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