From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752529AbXGGSPI (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:15:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752863AbXGGSO5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:14:57 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]:52493 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752699AbXGGSO4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:14:56 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [ide] mmio ide support Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:07:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org References: <20070707094852.9473.21013.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <200707071419.52650.arnd@arndb.de> <468FC4AC.9030701@ru.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <468FC4AC.9030701@ru.mvista.com> X-Face: >j"dOR3XO=^3iw?0`(E1wZ/&le9!.ok[JrI=S~VlsF~}"P\+jx.GT@=?utf-8?q?=0A=09-oaEG?=,9Ba>v;3>:kcw#yO5?B:l{(Ln.2)=?utf-8?q?=27=7Dfw07+4-=26=5E=7CScOpE=3F=5D=5EXdv=5B/zWkA7=60=25M!DxZ=0A=09?= =?utf-8?q?8MJ=2EU5?="hi+2yT(k`PF~Zt;tfT,i,JXf=x@eLP{7B:"GyA\=UnN) =?utf-8?q?=26=26qdaA=3A=7D-Y*=7D=3A3YvzV9=0A=09=7E=273a=7E7I=7CWQ=5D?=<50*%U-6Ewmxfzdn/CK_E/ouMU(r?FAQG/ev^JyuX.%(By`" =?utf-8?q?L=5F=0A=09H=3Dbj?=)"y7*XOqz|SS"mrZ$`Q_syCd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707072007.10448.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18UzfamQu6eQ7SYgiQ9lycvJa/Wnkt+eIY386a Yz/f2eQwsR9dJczz2X5URnBUIN79uBWBDyHUzd23r+F6xd8nwI EUiRFaWhzPzlbJUKo2GWQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > >>Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug > > > 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 on the argument that drivers/ide/ is going away soon. Most current distros have already moved over to using libata exclusively. > > about to add the electra_ide.c driver in 2.6.23, I guess there > > should really be _one_ driver that is able to handle all > > of_device based ATA hosts. > > One driver to rule them all. :-) > That may be not so simple as it seems... It's certainly not easy to support all ATA chips that have special capabilities and bugs, but the electra and the mpc8349-itx both seem to support only the most basic ATA PIO mode anyway, which does not require much special handling beyond finding the right mmio addresses. Arnd <><