Re: [PATCH] alim15x3: Remove historical hacks, re-enable init_hwif for PowerPC

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On Monday 27 April 2009 20:47:42 Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Some time ago we had to disable init_hwif callback for PowerPC builds.
> That was because of a historical IRQ overwrite in the driver, which
> was causing IDE malfunction on the MPC8610HPCD PowerPC boards.
> 
> It's unclear whether this overwrite is still useful, but it is proven
> to cause a bit of harm, and today some PowerPC targets (Xilinx ML510,
> as reported by Roderick Colenbrander) need the init_hwif, so we have
> to re-enable it and remove the overwrite.
> 
> Reported-by: Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks, I applied it to ide-2.6.git/for-next
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