Re: [PATCH] Generic platform device IDE driver

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 08:06:59 EST


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-10-04 am 16:45 +0900, ysgrifennodd Paul Mundt:
> > This is intended purely for the simple NO_DMA ide_generic case.. nothing
> > complicated.
> >
> > What do people think about this, is there a better way to do this?
>
> drivers/ide is going away over time.

That was the impression I got.

> I think the concept is nice and it's sort of reflected in the libata
> VLB drivers. I think it would be a very good way to get good platform
> drivers for libata for the embedded platforms.
>
Ok, I wasn't sure if libata was intended for anything outside of the
SATA case (especially non-PCI), but if that's the way to go, I'll look
at hacking something up under libata.

> Moving the existing drivers/ide stuff to a new drivers/ide variant is
> wasted work however.
>
That's what I figured, thanks for clearing it up.
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