From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] ia64: generic_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:19:06 +0300 Message-ID: <55D2097A.7090203@cogentembedded.com> References: <1439826388-31456-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> <1439826388-31456-2-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1439826388-31456-2-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello. On 08/17/2015 06:46 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > IDE subsystem has been deprecated since 2009 and the majority > (if not all) of Linux distributions have switched to use > libata for ATA support exclusively. However there are still > some users (mostly old or/and embedded non-x86 systems) that > have not converted from using IDE subsystem to libata PATA > drivers. This doesn't seem to be good thing in the long-term > for Linux as while there is less and less PATA systems left > in use: > > * testing efforts are divided between two subsystems > > * having duplicate drivers for same hardware confuses users > > This patch converts generic_defconfig to use libata PATA > drivers (sgiioc4 IDE host driver has no corresponding libata > driver yet so it is not converted). > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > --- > Build tested only. > If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you. > > arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig b/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig > index 81f686d..f55be82 100644 > --- a/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig > +++ b/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig [...] > @@ -62,6 +59,9 @@ CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280=y > CONFIG_ATA=y > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y > CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE=y > +CONFIG_PATA_CMD64X=y > +CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y If you're enabling the MPIIX support (which I doubt is necessary), why not enable the "old" PIIX support? > +CONFIG_ATA_GENERIC=y MBR, Sergei