linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] m68k/mac: Replace macide driver with generic platform driver

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Message-ID: <80c3c2f2-baea-02f8-3ac6-da04a4b1c7d3@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:36:02 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...il.com>,
        Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
        Finn Thain <fthain@...tmail.com.au>
Cc:     Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Joshua Thompson <funaho@...ai.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k/mac: Replace macide driver with generic platform
 driver

On 4/27/21 10:11 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 27.04.2021 4:51, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
>>> Was macide the only IDE driver in Debian/m68k kernels without a libata
>>> alternative? If so, this patch would allow you to finally drop CONFIG_IDE.
>>>
>> There's still q40ide.c (ISA IDE interface, byte-swapped, so would need treatment similar to Falcon IDE). Hasn't been updated to a platform device yet.
> 
>   ISA drivers shouldn't be "updated" to the platform drivers.

Why not?

Adrian

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