From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:24:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:24:49 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:6410 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:24:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3D62C2A3.4070701@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:28:51 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick CC: "Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)" , "'Padraig Brady'" , "'Linux Kernel'" , "Warner, Bill (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)" Subject: Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller References: <3D62BC10.3060201@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Attached is the ATA core... Just to give a little bit more information about the previously attached code, it is merely a module that does two things: (a) demonstrates proper [and sometimes faster-than-current-linus] ATA bus probing, and (b) demonstrates generic registration and initialization of ATA devices and channels. All other tasks can be left to "personality" (a.k.a. class) drivers, such as 'disk', 'cdrom', 'floppy', ... types. Jeff