Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270867AbUJUTRF (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:17:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270866AbUJUTRD (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:17:03 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.197]:23695 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270864AbUJUTN5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:13:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=AS2uBCxj8k73pezPzjp7zg2gys+6QKTiSTYkqRqsF/JRmqywmcsXN5XIEtgGGNdLDqTPJxNcNkDUcSbfqTTzwEGfP4JVn03jqcQM1mN8zNU8yd9ftm1k2TzPI4RVZ7/D9cW2o8p0CcBxtMQiQvwe7/zB8iq7P16Ffp2DVO+VaAc= Message-ID: <58cb370e041021121317083a3a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:13:57 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor Cc: Linux Kernel , Marcelo Tosatti In-Reply-To: <41780393.3000606@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41780393.3000606@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 24 please also cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > An equivalent patch for 2.6.xx is being worked on. generally it should be like that: 2.6.x first, 2.4.x later > + * This is slightly peculiar, in that it is a PCI driver, > + * but is NOT an IDE PCI driver -- the IDE layer does not directly > + * support hot insertion/removal of PCI interfaces, so this driver > + * is unable to use the IDE PCI interfaces. Instead, it uses the > + * same interfaces as the ide-cs (PCMCIA) driver uses. > + * On the plus side, the driver is also smaller/simpler this way. IDE layer doesn't support hot insertion/removal of _any_ interfaces ide_unregister() calls are not allowed unless somebody fixes locking (Alan fixed many issues but some more work is still needed) Bartlomiej - 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/