[PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver)

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 26 03:59:19 EST 2007


On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

>
> This is now very similar to pata_platform.c, they both use
> same platform data structure and same resources.
>
> To achieve that, byte_lanes_swapping platform data variable
> and platform specified iops removed from that driver. It's fine,
> since those were never used anyway.
>
> pata_platform and ide_platform are carrying same driver names,
> to easily switch between these drivers, without need to touch
> platform code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb at kernel.crashing.org>

Out of interest is this something that could exist in pata land?  I  
haven't really been following legacy/ide vs pata lately.

- k



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