Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Bump MAX_HWIFS in IDE code

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-11-10T18:05:35Z

Anton, IDE driver is limited to 10 major numbers anyway
so please just use 10 for now...

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:12:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 13:12 -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:55:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > hrmph. That costs 50kbytes, excluding ide-tape. It's worth a
> > > config variable, I think.
> >
> > this come up from time to time, and i wonder why it can't be dynamic?
>
> Good question :) I suppose Bart has that on his todolist, but it will
> require some work on the IDE layer, which only few people can do without
> breaking it all :)

Yes I'm working on it and I will need some help with fixing PPC drivers. :)