> > I don't think ide-platform matters in this case. > > You've just supported a patch restoring feature parity between > pata_platform and ide-platfrom WRT IRQ flags. ;-) Because it was trivial to do. > Yes, but this needs to be *done* too, preferrably by the author of > the original patch and simultaneously with it. We can't accept a single > patch that only touches pata_platform. Sure - or support it in both. I've no problem with both supporting that function, just with legacy code blocking progress. > Well, with 8250 we still don't allow for overriding things at the > board level, via the platform data callbacks. Oh yes we do. Platform specific drivers can directly override the access operators and they do some truely horrible platform specific stuff in the overridden operators. And the great thing - nobody else has to know what the board vendors have been on.. -- 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