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Message-ID: <4A8869A3.7020504@garzik.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:18:43 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC: "Subbrathnam, Swaminathan" <swami.iyer@...com>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sata AHCI controller over non-PCI bus
On 08/16/2009 11:34 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Can't you get the best of both worlds? Do the separation but
> artificially glue them together again as a module at link time. This
> solves the current distro problem and you can remove the linker hack as
> soon as the distros get their act together.
>
> James
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/Makefile b/drivers/ata/Makefile
> index 9f7b500..10101d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/ata/Makefile
> @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_ATA) += libata.o
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_AHCI) += libahci.o ahci.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI) += libahci.o acard-ahci.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_AHCI) += ahci_mod.o
> +obj-ahci_mod-y += libahci.o ahci.o
> +obj-ahci_mod-$(CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI) += acard-ahci.o
> +obj-ahci_mod-$(CONFIG_SATA_MV_AHCI) += mv-ahci.o
Yeah, that could definitely be an option...
Jeff
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