Re: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:35, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Hmm, what's the intent of the change?  IDE, or more properly ATA, was
> originally an ISA-only device and is still only available as ISA-style
> implementations, AFAIK.  I'd prefer it to be available only if any of
> CONFIG_ISA, CONFIG_EISA, CONFIG_PCI (unsure about CONFIG_MCA) is set.

We support ATA devices attached to arbitary busses. The newest ATA code
supports arbitary mmio/pio addressing mechanisms. You don't need ISA or
an ISA like bus.