Re: [PATCH 2/2] pata_amd: add support for CS5535 controllers

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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Alan Cox<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri,  3 Jul 2009 11:22:43 -0300
> Otavio Salvador <otavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We already have a CS5535 driver: drivers/ata/pata_cs5535.c
>
> That drives the hardware via the MSR interface which means it doesn't
> rely so much on what firmware and firmware related magic happens to be on
> a given system.

Right but why not also support it at pata_amd as it is done for cs5536?

If the native ones are the suitable ones then wouldn't be better to
drop cs5536 from pata_amd and leave just the native ones as
alternative?

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