On Mer, 2004-12-08 at 12:14, wlacey wrote: > Forgive the stupid question but on the 2.6 kernel I cannot find an ide_ops.h header file and obviously the extern ide_ops structure. > The ide ops are part of the hwif (hardware interface) object. > How should one go about specifiying an ide device in a 2.6 kernel Assuming the device has standard behaviour and is just basic legacy IDE then ide_hwif_t *hwif; hw_reg_t hw; memset(hw, 0, sizeof(*hw)); ide_std_init_ports(&hw, IDE_PORT, CTRL__PORT); hw.irq = whatever; hw.dma = NO_DMA; ide_register_hw(&hw, NULL); For DMA devices you need either to use the PCI layer functions or register DMA handlers. Take a look at something simple like drivers/ide/pci/triflex.c