From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Sachin Rane <SRane@alphion.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need Info about IDE driver
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:16:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911241716.07836.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <846629303ABF174A9EA5BB26D6965A594D5465@MX2.AlphionCorp.local>
Hi,
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 02:02:35 pm Sachin Rane wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to 'IDE' Linux driver.
> Before writing this mail I tried to get information from internet but
> couldn't hit the website which can give developer point of view
> information.
>
> I am going through the code '
> kernel-2.6.16.1-ts.amcc440gx.basic.1/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c' and user
> manual for 'Sil0680' to understand how the IDE driver works.
>
> I have very basic questions:
> 1. What does mean the value '2' i.e. 'Custom' which has been set for
> 'hwif->mmio'
'Custom' value is gone in newer kernels and it is rather unlikely that you'll
find people interested in the community support for 3.5 years old kernel.
> 2. Where I can find details about 'TaskFile'?
http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Developer_Resources
PS Please cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org mailing list on discussions related
to Linux ATA support.
Thanks.
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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