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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: How to cleanly setup legacy IDE irq ?
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:26:53 +1000
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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.