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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:46:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > I think that ide should get its own bus, as a child of the ide controller. 
> > I haven't looked at ide yet at all. But, on most modern systems, the ide 
> > controller is a function of the southbridge, so ide devices should go 
> > under that. Like what the usb stuff does now...
> 
> What about, say, a Promise PCI IDE card?  You really need to reference
> the parent PCI device when the is one.

LOL, how about ones that are quad-channel with a DEC-Bridge to slip the
local BUSS?

Cheers,


Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project                Linux ATA Development

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