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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [ide] mmio ide support
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:15:41 +0200
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Hi,

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 07 July 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > >>This adds support for MMIO IDE device like CompactFlash 
> > >>in TrueIDE mode.
> > 
> > >>Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> 
> > >>Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
> > 
> > > Hmm, are we still adding new IDE drivers? Do you also have a
> > 
> >     Yes, why not?
> 
> The last time someone (I think Akira Iguchi) wanted to add
> a new powerpc specific IDE driver, that was rejected based

linux/drivers/ide/pci/scc_pata.c

New IDE host drivers are still fine.

> on the argument that drivers/ide/ is going away soon. Most
> current distros have already moved over to using libata
> exclusively.

The in-kernel default for PATA systems is still IDE subsystem.

Thanks,
Bart