From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:13:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e041021121317083a3a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41780393.3000606@rtr.ca>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 18:44 Mark Lord
2004-10-21 19:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2004-10-21 20:24 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 20:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 20:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 21:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 22:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 21:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 21:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 22:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 23:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-21 21:04 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-21 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 22:49 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 22:57 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-22 0:07 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22 0:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-22 0:20 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22 0:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-23 11:08 ` Mark Lord
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