From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:12:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457F374F.4030106@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <457F3621.9030804@ru.mvista.com>
Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>>> Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE
>>> controller,
>>> completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4
>>> version.
>>>
>>> This single channel UltraDMA/66 controller is very simple in
>>> programming, yet
>>> Toshiba managed to plant many interesting bugs in it. The
>>> particularly nasty
>>> "limitation 5" (as they call the errata) caused me to abuse the IDE
>>> core in a
>>> possibly most interesting way so far. However, this is still better
>>> than the
>>> #ifdef mess in drivers/ide/ide-io.c that the original version
>>> included (well,
>>> it had much more mess)...
>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
>
>>> drivers/ide/Kconfig | 5 drivers/ide/pci/Makefile | 1
>>> drivers/ide/pci/tc86c001.c | 304
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> drivers/pci/quirks.c | 18 ++
>>> include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1 5 files changed, 329 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/ide/Kconfig
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/ide/Kconfig
>>> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/ide/Kconfig
>>> @@ -742,6 +742,11 @@ config BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX
>>> This allows the kernel to change PIO, DMA and UDMA speeds and to
>>> configure the chip to optimum performance.
>>>
>>> +config BLK_DEV_TC86C001
>>> + tristate "Toshiba TC86C001 support"
>
>> Needs something here like lots of other IDE PCI drivers have:
>> depends on PCI && BLK_DEV_IDEPCI
>
>> or at least: depends on PCI
>
> No, it's already under if BLK_DEV_IDEPCI. And if you really look into
> Kconfig you'll see hwo it's done there...
>
>>> + help
>>> + This driver adds support for Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S chip.
>>> +
>>> endif
>
> Here's that endif.
Ack. Thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 22:48 [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-12 22:57 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-12 23:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-12 23:07 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-12 23:12 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2006-12-12 23:41 ` Alan
2006-12-13 1:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-12-13 11:32 ` Alan
2006-12-13 14:01 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-12-13 14:16 ` Alan
2006-12-13 14:19 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-12-13 14:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-13 14:53 ` Alan
2006-12-13 0:40 ` Alan
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