Re: sata AHCI controller over non-PCI bus

[Jeff Garzik]

On 08/16/2009 11:34 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Can't you get the best of both worlds?  Do the separation but
> artificially glue them together again as a module at link time.  This
> solves the current distro problem and you can remove the linker hack as
> soon as the distros get their act together.
>
> James
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/Makefile b/drivers/ata/Makefile
> index 9f7b500..10101d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/ata/Makefile
> @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
>
>   obj-$(CONFIG_ATA)		+= libata.o
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_AHCI)		+= libahci.o ahci.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI)	+= libahci.o acard-ahci.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_AHCI)		+= ahci_mod.o
> +obj-ahci_mod-y			+= libahci.o ahci.o
> +obj-ahci_mod-$(CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI)	+= acard-ahci.o
> +obj-ahci_mod-$(CONFIG_SATA_MV_AHCI)	+= mv-ahci.o


Yeah, that could definitely be an option...

	Jeff


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/