Re: [PATCH 6/14] FRV: IDE fixes

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 06:02:41 EST



> > Do you really need this, and if so please why ?
>
> Because IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT is not defined? [ See ide.h. ]

Exactly. Doing so is, apparently, obsolete. However, the IDE register pointers
aren't then initialised and the kernel crashes with a null pointer exception,
IIRC.

David
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