> http://www.palm.com/us/support/contact/environment/disassem_inst_Lifedrive.pdf , > see slide 10 and 15 for yourself, I think noone would want to solder anything > into that device ;-) Agreed but if the hardware can do it you don't need the flag. Obviously not very important in this case. > > > > + /* we'd better wait for drive's ready signal here > > + (if we knew where it will come from) */ > > + msleep(300); > > > > Our probe code should already be waiting for ready signals ? > > The drive asserts some GPIO when it becomes ready, dunno which one though so > we just wait here. Ok so the ATA bus side ready isn't sufficient for your hardware ? > > The only other question is a general architectural one as to whether it > > would be better to set up the GPIO etc and create a pata_platform > > platform device (possibly tweaking pata_platform flags to allow the > > caller to indicate generic pio with mode setting by set features command) > > I already explained this to Eric, there isn't any other obscure hardware I > think. Or if this is concerning something else, I'll recheck later. -- 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
