Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices

Andre Hedrick
2002-02-05T22:56:12Z

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > I think that ide should get its own bus, as a child of the ide controller.
> > I haven't looked at ide yet at all. But, on most modern systems, the ide
> > controller is a function of the southbridge, so ide devices should go
> > under that. Like what the usb stuff does now...
>
> What about, say, a Promise PCI IDE card? You really need to reference
> the parent PCI device when the is one.

LOL, how about ones that are quad-channel with a DEC-Bridge to slip the
local BUSS?

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development