From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: ide: Include appropriate header file in ide-cd_verbose.c
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:23:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1930396.DGXdd6ZaUD@amdc1032> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131217190610.GJ30592@pd.tnic>
Hi,
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 08:06:10 PM Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:42:54PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > You're right in your doubting: there are quite a lot of drivers used
> > by embedded platforms that nobody has bothered to convert to libata
> > thus far.
>
> Hold on, what does that mean? IDE is back from the dead and used only
> for embedded stuff?
No, it means that there are legacy PATA chipsets (some used by embedded
platforms) that are only supported by IDE host drivers.
> Or we force people to convert drivers to libata by *deleting* ide?
>
> :-)
If there is a need I should be able to help in converting these leftover
drivers before we delete IDE. Once I find some time I will go over all
IDE host drivers, make a list of affected hardware and start a discussion
on IDE removal.
Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-18 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-17 11:08 [PATCH 1/2] drivers: ide: Include appropriate header file in ide-cd_verbose.c Rashika Kheria
2013-12-17 11:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers: ide: Include appropriate header file in ide-pio-blacklist.c Rashika Kheria
2013-12-17 16:37 ` Josh Triplett
2014-01-29 7:37 ` David Miller
2013-12-17 11:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] drivers: ide: Include appropriate header file in ide-cd_verbose.c Borislav Petkov
2013-12-17 16:44 ` Josh Triplett
2013-12-17 17:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-17 19:42 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-12-17 19:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-18 13:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2013-12-18 13:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-18 18:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-12-17 16:37 ` Josh Triplett
2013-12-17 18:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-01-29 7:36 ` David Miller
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