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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][DOC] writing IDE driver guidelines
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:26:05 +0200
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On Sunday 16 of May 2004 00:23, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> >>>- define ide_default_irq(), ide_init_default_irq()
> >>>  and ide_default_io_base() to (0)
> >>
> >>Maybe provide generic definitions, so that new arches don't even
> >>have to care about this?
> >
> > Please explain.
>
> Your document appears to imply that each new arch should define the
> above three symbols.
>
> My suggestion is to devise a method by which new arches don't have to
> care about those symbols at all, unless required to do so by the
> underlying hardware.

OK will work on this