[PATCH 2/3] [libata] pata_of_platform: OF-Platform PATA device driver

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:05:01PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 
> >>>Remaining question: any preferred name for that property? pio-mode okay?
> >>>It's assuming that PIO6 capable bus supports PIO0 as well, thus no mask.
> 
> >>  I've already suggested "generic". A name "simple" also comes to my mind.
> 
> >You've misread my question. I didn't ask about driver name, but pio-mode
> >property.
> 
>    I'm OK with "pio-mode" then. Just don't think it makes much sense in the 
> context of this driver which has no provision for the programming the mode 
> timings (and if there were some provision, the *generic* platform driver 
> couldn't handle it anyway).

What sense it makes then?.. We're specifying bus limitations wrt
PIO modes.

Oh, I think you meant that bus can't be reconfigured by generic
driver, that's true. But I didn't mean this as a purpose for
pio-mode property (though it still could be used for that
purpose by other drivers).

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