Re: [PATCH] add PATA host controller support for Cirrus Logic's EP93xxCPUs

From: Ryan Mallon
Date: Thu Nov 26 2009 - 14:45:52 EST


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Based on the older IDE host driver by Joao Ramos and review comments
> for it from Sergei Shtylyov. Not yet tested with the real hardware.

>
> Sidenote:
>
> I have neither the hardware nor much personal interest in adding support
> for it so I did it mainly cause:
>
> - IDE host driver wasn't merged due to policy change and I hate seeing fair
> amount of review work from me & Sergei going into waste. :)
>
> - I was curious about some claims I've been hearing recently so I decided to
> verify them in practice (porting the driver to libata was relatively easy
> but unfortunately in the process it gained almost 50% in the LOC count..).
>
> so if somebody would like to take over this patch feel free to do it.

Thanks for doing this. I'll see if I can dig out a hard-drive and give
this a test. I had some comments, but I will fix them up myself if I get
round to testing this.

~Ryan

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