From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:24:18 +0400 Message-ID: <46A8CAB2.5050706@ru.mvista.com> References: <20070725165318.5331.23795.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20070725165326.5331.19920.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <46A78322.3080607@ru.mvista.com> <46A78E3F.1030904@ru.mvista.com> <20070725180145.GA29689@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> <46A7941F.2050300@ru.mvista.com> <46A798D8.7020906@freescale.com> <46A7A4EC.2020503@ru.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from homer.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:35454 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758432AbXGZQWS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:22:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46A7A4EC.2020503@ru.mvista.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Scott Wood , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, I wrote: >>>>> Also, what mmio-ide in the compat properly means in the context >>>>>of ide_platform which is able to handle both port and memory mapped >>>>>IDE. >>>>I/O-space is only valid in the context of PCI, ISA, or similar buses, >>>>and >>>>the bus-specific reg format indicates whether it's mmio-space or >>>>io-space. >>> You could save time on lecturing me (and use it to look on the >>>driver ;-). >>Sorry, I misread the question as being a mismatch between the >>capabilities of the device binding and the driver, not about the >>specific compatible name. > That too. :-) >>Something like "generic-ide" would probably be better. > I strongly disagree with "generic" part. The generic IDE could only be > said of 1:1 I/O mapped IDE ports, not about this fancy mapping. BTW, there's already something called drivers/ide/ide-generic.c... :-) MBR, Sergei