Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270831AbUJUUhw (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:37:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270897AbUJUUdJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:33:09 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:40838 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270939AbUJUU0v (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:26:51 -0400 Message-ID: <41781B13.3030803@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:24:51 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Linux Kernel , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor References: <41780393.3000606@rtr.ca> <58cb370e041021121317083a3a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58cb370e041021121317083a3a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1564 Lines: 47 Okay, patch withdrawn. I'll just apply it to my own kernels for my own use. Whatever happended to the days when Linux *wanted* more drivers and such? Oh well.. -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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/ - 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/