From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754396AbXGGQuM (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:50:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752040AbXGGQuA (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:50:00 -0400 Received: from h155.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:55681 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752336AbXGGQt7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:49:59 -0400 Message-ID: <468FC4AC.9030701@ru.mvista.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:51:56 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [ide] mmio ide support References: <20070707094852.9473.21013.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <200707071419.52650.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200707071419.52650.arnd@arndb.de> 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 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? > driver for the new libata layer? No (sorry for replying for Vitaly but I know the situation). > I think it would even be simpler to do. Wel have no interest in it right now. > You could also make it an of_platform_driver at the same time > instead of adding more cruft to fsl_soc.c. Since we're already That's a fair point (and fsl_soc.c doesn't seem proper place anyway). > 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... MBR, Sergei