Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 0/2] Convert Atari Falcon IDE driver to platform device

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-26T18:17:44Z

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:33 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> On 9/25/19 9:54 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > [Resend because linux-m68k was dropped from the recipient list ...]
> >
> > As suggested by Geert, at least one of the drivers available for the Falcon
> > IDE interface should be converted to a platform device driver (to enable
> > module autoloading by the Debian installer).
> >
> > Add platform device for Falcon IDE (patch 1), and rewrite the present
> > libata driver to make use of that device (patch 2).
> >
> > Changes from v1:
> >
> > Incorporated review comments by Geert; corrected silly mismatch between
> > platform device name and platform driver name that caused loading driver
> > to fail locating the related resource; check return code of platform device
> > register call.
> >
> > Tested on ARAnyM with only the pata_falcon driver builtin.
>
> Who's going to pick this one up? I can do it, but it'd be nice to have
> m68k on patch 1 first.

Sorry for the late reply. I'll have a closer look after ELC-E, and will apply
to the m68k tree if it passes.

BTW, I believe v1 of both patches has been acked by Bartlomiej?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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