[PATCH 3/3 2.6.24-git] PPC/LIBATA: Select HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM for ARCH_PPC

[Olof Johansson]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:41:02PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:12:39PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:21:36PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> > > Use the new HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM to select PATA_PLATFORM
> > > driver.
> > > 
> > > CC: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux at fluff.org>
> > 
> > What tree is this against? It doesn't apply to current mainline nor
> > jgarzik's libata-dev upstream branch.
> 
> It is a series that i've just sent to the linux-ide list, only the ppc
> part was cc'd to the ppc list.

D'oh. Ok, makes more sense now.

Are you planning on adding HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM to the other archs that
use it as well, or keep it under EMBEDDED there?


> > Anyway: NACK: I like this approach but this needs to be added to
> > arch/powerpc as well.
> 
> I can add that to the series.

Ok, cool. We can probably move it in under the relevant powerpc
sub-platforms over time, and that's a powerpc-specific change anyway,
no need to get that through linux-ide.

> > It's actually more needed there than arch/ppc, I don't personally care
> > if arch/ppc can't use pata_platform for the last couple of months it's
> > still around (it's getting deleted this summer, all platforms should
> > have moved to powerpc by then).
> 
> Thanks, didn't know that.

No problem. :)


-Olof