From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, gregkh@suse.de,
ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generic platform device IDE driver
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:05:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004200501.GB6664@localhost.Internal.Linux-SH.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159962084.25772.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 16:45 +0900, ysgrifennodd Paul Mundt:
> > This is intended purely for the simple NO_DMA ide_generic case.. nothing
> > complicated.
> >
> > What do people think about this, is there a better way to do this?
>
> drivers/ide is going away over time.
That was the impression I got.
> I think the concept is nice and it's sort of reflected in the libata
> VLB drivers. I think it would be a very good way to get good platform
> drivers for libata for the embedded platforms.
>
Ok, I wasn't sure if libata was intended for anything outside of the
SATA case (especially non-PCI), but if that's the way to go, I'll look
at hacking something up under libata.
> Moving the existing drivers/ide stuff to a new drivers/ide variant is
> wasted work however.
>
That's what I figured, thanks for clearing it up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 7:45 [PATCH] Generic platform device IDE driver Paul Mundt
2006-10-04 11:30 ` girish
2006-10-04 20:02 ` Paul Mundt
2006-10-04 12:25 ` girish
2006-10-04 11:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 20:05 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2006-10-04 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-05 9:16 ` Paul Mundt
[not found] ` <200610111450.41909.matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
2006-10-12 6:13 ` Paul Mundt
2006-10-13 7:52 ` Russell King
2006-10-13 12:28 ` Paul Mundt
2006-10-13 12:46 ` Jeff Garzik
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