On Saturday 07 July 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > >>This adds support for MMIO IDE device like CompactFlash > >>in TrueIDE mode. > > >>Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Hmm, are we still adding new IDE drivers? Do you also have a > > Yes, why not? The last time someone (I think Akira Iguchi) wanted to add a new powerpc specific IDE driver, that was rejected based on the argument that drivers/ide/ is going away soon. Most current distros have already moved over to using libata exclusively. > > 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... It's certainly not easy to support all ATA chips that have special capabilities and bugs, but the electra and the mpc8349-itx both seem to support only the most basic ATA PIO mode anyway, which does not require much special handling beyond finding the right mmio addresses. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
