On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 19:40 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:44 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > - couple of fixes and preparatory patches
> > > 
> > > - rework of PowerMac media-bay support ([un]register IDE devices instead 
> > > of
> > >   [un]registering IDE interface) [ it is the main reason for spamming PPC 
> > > ML ]
> > 
> > Interesting... I was thinking about doing a full remove of the device at
> > a higher level instead but I suppose what you propose is easier.
> > 
> > I'll have a look & test next week hopefully.
> 
> Also, the above would have the advantage of not relying on drivers/ide
> infrastructure, and thus working with libata (once somebody has ported
> pmac ide to libata).

Neither of these things exist at the moment so lets stick to the existing
code which is scheduled for 2.6.26 and which finally allows removal of ppc
specific ide hacks from arch/{powerpc,ppc} (500 LOC gone, patches to be
posted this week), not to mention other nice changes in the future...

Thanks,
Bart
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