linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver (take 2)

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Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:14:36 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, bzolnier@...il.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver (take 2)

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:19:33 +0300
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com> wrote:

> Behold!  This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S PCI IDE controller,
> completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version.
> 
> This single channel UltraDMA/66 controller is very simple in programming, yet
> Toshiba managed to plant many interesting bugs in it.  The particularly nasty
> "limitation 5" (as they call the errata) caused me to abuse the IDE core in a
> possibly most interesting way so far.  However, this is still better than the
> #ifdef mess in drivers/ide/ide-io.c that the original version included  (well,
> it had much more mess)...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
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