From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Andrew Victor <avictor.za@gmail.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ide: add at91_ide driver
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:03:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498B460B.20205@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd73a99e0902051200ob1787e2v73e750344ca44ec9@mail.gmail.com>
Andrew Victor wrote:
>>>>>>AT91SAM9.
>>>>>Ok, currently only SAM9 can be used with driver. However I think adding
>>>>>support to AT91RM9200 to this driver will be not much effort.
>>>> Can you answer the simple question: why we should try to support two
>>>>incompatible chips with a single driver? Because the driver name will be
>>>>shorter? :-)
>>>Very funny. I think patch adding RM9200 support to this driver will have
>>>less
>>>than 50 lines changeset, whereas writing new driver would be about 500
>>>lines.
>> This approach is so broken-minded that I'm just out words to argue any
>>more.
> This driver should also work on the Atmel AT91CAP9 and AT572D940HF processors.
> So I see no valid reason why the driver cannot be called at91_ide.
I've already said: call it whatever you want. Just don't try to add
support for an incompatible AT91 SMC.
> Regards,
> Andrew Victor
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 10:47 [PATCH 2/3] ide: add at91_ide driver Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-02-04 12:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-04 14:47 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-02-04 16:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-04 16:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-05 15:01 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-02-05 16:09 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-05 20:00 ` Andrew Victor
2009-02-05 20:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2009-02-06 9:35 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-02-06 10:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-06 16:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-02-06 17:20 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-05 21:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-02-05 23:31 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-06 16:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-02-08 0:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-08 11:39 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-08 22:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-09 19:48 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-02-06 9:30 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2009-02-06 10:36 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-02-06 10:47 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=498B460B.20205@ru.mvista.com \
--to=sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com \
--cc=avictor.za@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk \
--cc=linux-ide@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux@maxim.org.za \
--cc=stf_xl@wp.pl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).