Re: [PATCH] ata: add Buddha PATA controller driver

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Hi Bartlomiej, Christoph,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 3:12 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/18/2018 02:41 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
+static int __init pata_buddha_init_one(void)
+{
+    struct zorro_dev *z = NULL;
+
+    while ((z = zorro_find_device(ZORRO_WILDCARD, z))) {

I'm not really an m68k expert, but shouldn't this implement a
struct zorro_driver instead?  (or maybe two of them as xsurf
seems sufficiently different).

I didn't want to introduce too many changes over old IDE's
driver in the initial version of the libata driver as
I can't test them myself. Once the new driver is verified
to work I plan to convert it into proper Zorro_driver.

Unfortunately that conversion cannot happen right now, as zorro8390.c
already binds against the X-Surf zorro device.

I think the proper solution would be to start using MFD for multi-function
Zorro devices, cfr. the work I started years ago, but never completed
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/log/?h=zorro-mfd

Then the Buddha MFD driver can instantiate 2 Buddha IDE cells, the
Catweasel MFD driver can instantiate 3 Buddha IDE cells and a Catweasel
floppy cell, and the X-Surf MFD driver can instantiate 2 Buddha IDE
cells and a zorro8390 cell.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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