Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

Martin Dalecki
2002-02-22T14:21:15Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:45:32PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>>
>>>The chipset drivers will register lists of PCI-id's they can handle
>>>instead of the single only global list found in ide-pci.c.
>>>
>>I think it'd be even better if the chipset drivers did the probing
>>themselves, and once they find the IDE device, they can register it with
>>the IDE core. Same as all the other subsystem do this.
>>
>
> Yes. I've mentioned before converting the IDE driver into a sort of
> structure, but it always boiled down to "that requires a complete
> rewrite" reply to me... If someone accomplishes such, I would be happy.

Well, apparently it turned out to be true.

BTW> If you have any "dirt bag" of "unfinished" code going into this
direction I would be quite happy to have a look at it ;-).