On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:10:02AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:03:45PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:52:23AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >... > > So this is a only impacting ARM wrt. PCMCIA, and given that ARM supplies > > an asm/ide.h, it's _entirely_ reasonable that if a platform has PCMCIA > > then it supports IDE. > > > > > We could simply always select HAVE_IDE on arm instead of manually > > > setting which platforms could possibly get IDE support (e.g. are there > > > any boards with PCI slots for which HAVE_IDE is currently not > > > selected?). > > > > You could, if there was a demand for it. As no one has added that, > > I conclude that its less common for people to stick an IDE controller > > into a PCI backplane. > > People can always enable code for stuff they don't use. > > But instead of having 14 ARM platforms plus PCMCIA (which is offered > unconditionally on all ARM platforms...) select HAVE_IDE it's simpler > to select it once for all ARM platforms. That would seem logical, but Bart objects to that idea. However, consider that we're gradually transitioning over to being exclusively libata only. > > In fact, there are only three classes of ARM platforms which have PCI > > selected but not HAVE_IDE - IOP13xx, IXP2000, and Orion. I suspect > > the only reason they don't select it because they now use the ATA code > > rather than the old IDE code - that's certainly true of Orion. > > The libata options are offered unconditionally on all platforms... It wasn't *my* choice to restrict IDE on ARM. See Bart for that decision. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- 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
