linux-kernel - Re: New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared

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Message-ID: <20090622183218.15d340d5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:32:18 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, bzolnier@...il.com,
	elendil@...net.nl, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared -
 system  	is dreadfully slow)

> Actually, m68k, m32r and h8300 currently can't use libata at all
> for one reason or another, mostly missing support for dma-mapping.h

That wants fixing and your ifdef patches looked a route to beat it into
some kind of shape

> side, it should be possible to convert almost any non-PCI ATA
> chip to use drivers/ata/pata_platform.c or pata_of_platform.c.

The ioc4 and the ppc ones are a bit harder as they have custom DMA
descriptor tables and stuff. The rest I agree.
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