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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to cleanly setup legacy IDE irq ?
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:26:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096853212.12123.64.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4160A6EE.1010804@pobox.com>

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 11:27, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > We could have it either called by the chipset drivers themselves, or by
> > the generic code when the controller is in legacy mode.
> 
> How about a more generic, yet more specific pci_init_hwif()?

What would it do except from providing the interrupt  ?

I really don't want platforms to abuse that in the way the older
callbacks existed, that is to fully initialize an hwif.

Also, my proposal beeing sort-of "agnostic" to the IDE layer (only
pdev and channel arguments), it could be useable by libata too :)

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-04  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01  3:51 How to cleanly setup legacy IDE irq ? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-01 14:11 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-02  4:30   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-02 14:56     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-03  0:33       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-03 20:54         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-03 23:42           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-04  0:27             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-04  1:05               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-04  1:20                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-04 21:35                   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-04 23:27                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-04  1:27                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-04  1:26                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-04  1:33                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-04  1:33                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-04 21:21                         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-04 23:26                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-04 23:56                             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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