linux-kernel - Re: Removal of BAST IDE driver

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:31:31 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
CC:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ben-linux@...ff.org
Subject: Re: Removal of BAST IDE driver

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> series) so when later Jeff merged:
> 
> commit cc18e0fea7907e7a96b7df71b81838d518bc074e
> Author: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
> Date:   Mon Jun 16 12:16:26 2008 +0100
> 
>     LIBATA: Add HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM to select PATA_PLATFORM driver
> ...
> 
> which was patch #1/2 in the series I was under impression that now we
> have both new and old driver with the old driver being the default because
> of the link order.  Seems I was wrong after all as other things are moving
> slower than IDE/ATA. ;)
> 
> Sorry for messing things up.  Russell/Ben: how should we proceed with
> fixing it (arch part in or ide part out)?


Ben's change merely adds a knob that a platform may set, in order to 
enable the existing pata_platform driver, which is pretty safe by itself.

The next piece -- once not in 2.6.26 AFAIK -- is arch-specific code 
selecting HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM.  BAST IDE, I assume, can go away once 
relevant platforms start turning on HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM.

	Jeff


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