Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261238AbUDANIS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:08:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262896AbUDANIS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:08:18 -0500 Received: from 168.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.168]:1803 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261238AbUDANIR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:08:17 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Denis Vlasenko To: Oliver Neukum , "Jinu M." , "Arjan van de Ven" Subject: Re: Flash Media block driver problem! Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:07:59 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: , "Surendra I." References: <1118873EE1755348B4812EA29C55A972176F98@esnmail.esntechnologies.co.in> <200404011313.50530.oliver@neukum.org> In-Reply-To: <200404011313.50530.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200404011607.59087.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 22 On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:13, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 12:47 schrieb Jinu M.: > > cool; linux can use a GPL driver for such things... > > > > [jinum] guess the question/clarification is not clear! > > This is a driver for our own controller (PCI). Which is a PCI based > > card. > > This card is not based on the SCSI or IDE interface so how will some > > other driver work for it unless we write ( or get it written sharing our > > hardware spec) a driver for the interface? > > It will not work. A block driver must be written for such hardware to make > it work. Hmm, they are willing to release specs... that's good. -- vda - 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/