On Friday 02 January 2009, Shane McDonald wrote: > Support for the IT8172 IDE controller was removed from the kernel > sometime after 2.6.18. Support for the only boards that used the IT8172 > was removed from the kernel after 2.6.18, as they had never compiled > since 2.6.0. However, there are a couple of platforms that use this > chip: the PMC-Sierra Xiao Hu thin-client computer, which is no longer > in production, and the Linksys NSS4000 Network Attached Storage box, > which is based on the Xiao Hu board. I am attempting to add support > for the Xiao Hu to the kernel, and this IT8172 IDE controller is the > first bit of code in this effort. > > This patch resurrects the IT8172 IDE controller code. I began with > the 2.6.18 version of the it8172.c file, and have moved it forward so > that it works with the latest version of the kernel. I have run this > driver on a PMC-Sierra Xiao Hu board with the 2.6.28 kernel, and > I have had no problems with it in my configuration. The attached patch > applies cleanly against 2.6.28. > > Signed-off-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@xxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> applied, thanks! -- 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
