Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-16T13:49:20Z

On 8/16/05, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:55:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 11:38 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > * removing IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT define has some implications,
> > > * non-functional ide-cs driver (but there is no PCMCIA on IA64?)
> >
> > IA64 systems can support PCI->Cardbus/PCMCIA cards so they do actually
> > need this support. They could also do with cardbus IDE support but that
> > means a whole pile of patches still although the refcounting stuff means
> > its a lot closer to doable now
>
> Then IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT needs to be added back for all other
> architectures that support PCI too ...

Rather ide-cs needs to be fixed to use ide_std_init_ports() instead of
ide_init_hwif_ports() (please see my reply to Alan).

Bartlomiej