From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generic platform device IDE driver Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:41:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1159962084.25772.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20061004074535.GA7180@localhost.hsdv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:10215 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030791AbWJDLQc (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:16:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20061004074535.GA7180@localhost.hsdv.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Mundt Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, gregkh@suse.de, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 16:45 +0900, ysgrifennodd Paul Mundt: > This is intended purely for the simple NO_DMA ide_generic case.. nothing > complicated. > > What do people think about this, is there a better way to do this? drivers/ide is going away over time. I think the concept is nice and it's sort of reflected in the libata VLB drivers. I think it would be a very good way to get good platform drivers for libata for the embedded platforms. Moving the existing drivers/ide stuff to a new drivers/ide variant is wasted work however.