Re: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface.

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Hello.

Alan Cox wrote:

> > OTOH, CF support via self-contained driver is certainly a waste of code 
> > since IDE core and (libata) are here to drive the CF devices as well. 
> > What we need is a "normal" IDE or libata (at your option) driver.
> >     
> A libata driver would be nice and probably easiest to do as you don't
> have to pretend to be close to old style taskfile IDE for a PC.
>   
  AFAIU you don't need to pretend that with IDE as well now.

> I am not convinced there is no case for a 'dumb' small CF driver, but if
> so the chipset code and the core code need to be separated as the other
> requests I see for this are different embedded boxes wanting to keep
> codesize down.
>   
 Yeah, that might be worth considering...

> Alan
>   
WBR, Sergei