On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Vitaly Bordug wrote: > > This is now very similar to pata_platform.c, they both use > same platform data structure and same resources. > > To achieve that, byte_lanes_swapping platform data variable > and platform specified iops removed from that driver. It's fine, > since those were never used anyway. > > pata_platform and ide_platform are carrying same driver names, > to easily switch between these drivers, without need to touch > platform code. Why? There's a drivers/ide/arm/ide_arm.c IDe driver that some platforms (not in the mainline) hack to access, e.g., CF cards in true-IDE mode. About a month ago I submitted a patch to arm-linux-kernel switching that driver to using platform-device. I got a reply, that it's not worth it now that IDE is slowly becoming obsolete, and the pata_platform serves the perpose perfectly well. I found this argument reasonable, I had the same doubt, just wanted to double-check. So, why do we now need a new legacy (a/drivers/ide/legacy/ide_platform.c) driver when a "modern" driver exists? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - 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
