Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755890AbbHQQTP (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:19:15 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:34546 "EHLO mail-la0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755859AbbHQQTK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:19:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] ia64: generic_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu References: <1439826388-31456-1-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> <1439826388-31456-2-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: Cogent Embedded Message-ID: <55D2097A.7090203@cogentembedded.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:19:06 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1439826388-31456-2-git-send-email-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1829 Lines: 53 Hello. On 08/17/2015 06:46 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > IDE subsystem has been deprecated since 2009 and the majority > (if not all) of Linux distributions have switched to use > libata for ATA support exclusively. However there are still > some users (mostly old or/and embedded non-x86 systems) that > have not converted from using IDE subsystem to libata PATA > drivers. This doesn't seem to be good thing in the long-term > for Linux as while there is less and less PATA systems left > in use: > > * testing efforts are divided between two subsystems > > * having duplicate drivers for same hardware confuses users > > This patch converts generic_defconfig to use libata PATA > drivers (sgiioc4 IDE host driver has no corresponding libata > driver yet so it is not converted). > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > --- > Build tested only. > If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you. > > arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig b/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig > index 81f686d..f55be82 100644 > --- a/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig > +++ b/arch/ia64/configs/generic_defconfig [...] > @@ -62,6 +59,9 @@ CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280=y > CONFIG_ATA=y > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y > CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE=y > +CONFIG_PATA_CMD64X=y > +CONFIG_PATA_MPIIX=y If you're enabling the MPIIX support (which I doubt is necessary), why not enable the "old" PIIX support? > +CONFIG_ATA_GENERIC=y MBR, Sergei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/