Re: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface.
From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Fri Nov 14 2008 - 05:04:49 EST
Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
OTOH, CF support via self-contained driver is certainly a waste of code
since IDE core and (libata) are here to drive the CF devices as well.
What we need is a "normal" IDE or libata (at your option) driver.
A libata driver would be nice and probably easiest to do as you don't
have to pretend to be close to old style taskfile IDE for a PC.
AFAIU you don't need to pretend that with IDE as well now.
I am not convinced there is no case for a 'dumb' small CF driver, but if
so the chipset code and the core code need to be separated as the other
requests I see for this are different embedded boxes wanting to keep
codesize down.
Yeah, that might be worth considering...
Alan
WBR, Sergei
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