From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ata: Add support for the MPC52xx ATA controller using libata Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:41:02 -0500 Message-ID: <455E3A7E.3030807@garzik.org> References: <11637151391017-git-send-email-tnt@246tNt.com> <200611172049.49260.jarno.manninen@tut.fi> <455E0907.8000009@246tNt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:24986 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753375AbWKQWlP (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:41:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <455E0907.8000009@246tNt.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sylvain Munaut Cc: Jarno Manninen , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org, Linux IDE , Sven Luther Sylvain Munaut wrote: > Since the current libata doesn't really support overriding IO accessors, > I'd keep it like > that for now. Apparently some other architecture needs special IO stuff > so we could see > a way to hook io accessor soon, and then we can change it if we notice > big problems. Sure it does... there are no individual outb etc. hooks, but you can override every available bitbang function. This is intentional, so that arches have more power to control when and how a set of registers is blasted to the hardware. Jeff