Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:12:23 -0500

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:45:32PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > The chipset drivers will register lists of PCI-id's they can handle
> > instead of the single only global list found in ide-pci.c.
>
> I think it'd be even better if the chipset drivers did the probing
> themselves, and once they find the IDE device, they can register it with
> the IDE core. Same as all the other subsystem do this.

Yes. I've mentioned before converting the IDE driver into a sort of
structure, but it always boiled down to "that requires a complete
rewrite" reply to me... If someone accomplishes such, I would be happy.

Jeff

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