From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C9EDDE29 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 03:20:09 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20070801005640.327226db@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20070725165318.5331.23795.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20070725165326.5331.19920.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <46A78322.3080607@ru.mvista.com> <46A78E3F.1030904@ru.mvista.com> <20070801005640.327226db@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6546254b267f6d7df93d8df27c6dcfb4@kernel.crashing.org> From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:19:56 +0200 To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >> The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA. >> Or that's what I was told -- I think there's some historic >> revisionism involved, too. > > ATA is the interface and standards for the ANSI standards based disk > attachment. IDE "Integrated Drive Electronics" is a marketing name used > to cover all sorts of ST412 compatible-ish early interfaces that moved > the brains onto the disk. IDE doesn't really mean much but "brains on > disk", ATA is a real standard. Thanks for refreshing my memory. We will have to support both names in OF device tree nodes, since both names are used in many existing device trees. For new nodes with no precedent, like this "mmio-ide", let's require the more correct "ata" name. Segher