Guennadi Liakhovetski 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
Wrong list to submit sych stuff, post to linux-ide.
Not entirely. The patch (or other patches in the series) would also touch
ARM platforms in the mainline, currently using that driver. As I didn't
Was worth cross-posting to linux-ide anyway to get the IDE experts'
feedback. ;-)
have a chance to test them due to lack of hardware, I posted on arm,
asking if anyone would test those platforms for me.
... and they laughed at you? ;-)
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
Ignore such replies in the future. ;-)
It was largely in accordance with my own opinion, so, I chose to accept
it:-)
It's not clear why you decided to waste time on it then. :-)
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?
Good question (I know the answer but won't tell ;-).
You've been very cooperative, thanks.
In fact, I also highly doubt that we need it. What we'd need is an OF driver.
Thanks
Guennadi
WBR, Sergei
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