On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:33:59 -0300 Otavio Salvador <otavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Are they full compatible in the AMD case - I know they are not in the NS case. > 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? For cs5536 I would have preferred to do that but there are existing users and setups that use pata_amd for this purpose. Alan -- 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
