From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Mallon Subject: Re: [PATCH] add PATA host controller support for Cirrus Logic's EP93xx CPUs Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:46:01 +1300 Message-ID: <4B0EDAF9.7080902@bluewatersys.com> References: <200911261651.40928.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200911261651.40928.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sergei Shtylyov , Joao Ramos , H Hartley Sweeten List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Based on the older IDE host driver by Joao Ramos and review comments > for it from Sergei Shtylyov. Not yet tested with the real hardware. > > Sidenote: > > I have neither the hardware nor much personal interest in adding support > for it so I did it mainly cause: > > - IDE host driver wasn't merged due to policy change and I hate seeing fair > amount of review work from me & Sergei going into waste. :) > > - I was curious about some claims I've been hearing recently so I decided to > verify them in practice (porting the driver to libata was relatively easy > but unfortunately in the process it gained almost 50% in the LOC count..). > > so if somebody would like to take over this patch feel free to do it. Thanks for doing this. I'll see if I can dig out a hard-drive and give this a test. I had some comments, but I will fix them up myself if I get round to testing this. ~Ryan -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solution Centre Ryan Mallon 5 Amuri Park, 404 Barbadoes St ryan@bluewatersys.com PO Box 13 889, Christchurch 8013 http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand Phone: +64 3 3779127 Freecall: Australia 1800 148 751 Fax: +64 3 3779135 USA 1800 261 2934