From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
alan@redhat.com, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 04/30] ACPI driver support for pata
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:26:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45ED7A27.3030504@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306151415.45db1d52@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> using separate pata_acpi driver (we can definitely implement pata_acpi
>> using the helpers). It will reduce general confusion and allow
>> combining acpi cable detection with specialized device handling (e.g.
>> ACPI cable detection combined with ADMA command operation).
>
> Read the code Tejun, I did exactly that. pata_acpi is a driver which uses
> a nice clean set of helper methods I added to libata-acpi. pata_acpi
> itself knows nothing about ACPI other than calling into libata-acpi.
Tejun is just repeating what I've been saying: you don't need a
separate driver, call out from sata_nv or whereever instead.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 10:37 [patch 04/30] ACPI driver support for pata akpm
2007-03-06 12:54 ` Tejun Heo
2007-03-06 15:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-06 14:18 ` Tejun Heo
2007-03-06 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-03-06 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-03-06 16:29 ` Alan Cox
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