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Message-ID: <4B0EDAF9.7080902@bluewatersys.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:46:01 +1300
From: Ryan Mallon <ryan@...ewatersys.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
CC: linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...montavista.com>,
Joao Ramos <joao.ramos@...v.pt>,
H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add PATA host controller support for Cirrus Logic's EP93xx
CPUs
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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