Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758014AbZFVRch (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:32:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757381AbZFVRb7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:31:59 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:49075 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757664AbZFVRbz (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:31:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:32:18 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Jeff Garzik , Greg Freemyer , David Miller , bzolnier@gmail.com, elendil@planet.nl, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow) Message-ID: <20090622183218.15d340d5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200906221921.21709.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20090621.141950.160759111.davem@davemloft.net> <4A3FB956.6060401@garzik.org> <20090622181100.43a56309@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200906221921.21709.arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 16 > Actually, m68k, m32r and h8300 currently can't use libata at all > for one reason or another, mostly missing support for dma-mapping.h That wants fixing and your ifdef patches looked a route to beat it into some kind of shape > side, it should be possible to convert almost any non-PCI ATA > chip to use drivers/ata/pata_platform.c or pata_of_platform.c. The ioc4 and the ppc ones are a bit harder as they have custom DMA descriptor tables and stuff. The rest I agree. -- 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/