[PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver	for CF	interface
    Sergei Shtylyov 
    sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
       
    Wed Aug  1 23:11:49 EST 2007
    
    
  
Hello.
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>>> +    ide at f0000000 {
>>>> +        compatible = "mmio-ide";
>>>> +        device_type = "ide";
>>>     Why not "ata"?
> The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA.
    Sorry for not denouncing this earlier. :-)
    ATA is the name of ANSI standard describing IDE.
> Or that's what I was told --
    Re-check your sources. ;-)
 > I think there's some historic revisionism involved, too.
    IDE was probably an initial name of the infamous disk hardware/protocol 
later standardized as ATA, EIDE (being more of a trademark) more or less 
equals to ATA-2.
>>     Also, what mmio-ide in the compat properly means in the context of
>> ide_platform which is able to handle both port and memory mapped IDE. 
>> I think
>> we must get rid with this crap, and since this IDE register mapping is 
>> pretty
>> much board specific, call it something like "mpc8349emitx-ide" instead.
> "mmio-ide" simply is not specific enough.  The device_type
    Yes.
> should go, too.
> If this IDE interface is board-specific, thee "compatible"
    It's "thy", not "thee". ;-)
> property should include the board vendor name and board
> name.  Oh, that's what "emitx" tries to do -- it could be
> a bit clearer perhaps ;-)
    Yeah, I forgot about the vondor's "fsl," prefix.
> Segher
MBR, Sergei
    
    
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