Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE

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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 4:26 pm

On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Russell King wrote:

Please send me a patch doing this, it should be safe for current IDE tree.


I don't remember the background but I think it was needed because of badly
perplexed ide_init_hwif_ports() and friends in <asm/ide.h> vs <linux/ide.h>
(almost all this stuff is gone in IDE tree for 2.6.26)...

Ok, I found the patch:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=4b3b8ee5db37...

[ tglx's history tree since it is from May 2004. ]


It could be that I did the poor job of explaining things back then
but I also didn't like the fact that I needed to restrict the IDE
choice on ARM - the change in question was _necessary_ to start
converting IDE drivers to become real, independent, modular host
drivers and as a preparation for adding proper warm-plug support.

Thanks,
Bart
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[2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Apr 14, 7:16 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Apr 14, 10:53 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Bartlomiej Zolnierki ..., (Tue Apr 15, 1:15 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 15, 2:23 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Tue Apr 15, 2:26 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Tue Apr 15, 2:28 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Tue Apr 15, 2:42 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 15, 2:52 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Tue Apr 15, 3:03 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Apr 15, 3:10 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Tue Apr 15, 3:39 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] PCMCIA mustn't select HAVE_IDE, Bartlomiej Zolnierki ..., (Tue Apr 15, 4:26 pm)
[2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Apr 17, 2:37 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Thu Apr 17, 2:59 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Apr 17, 3:48 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Thu Apr 17, 4:00 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Apr 17, 5:38 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Adrian Bunk, (Thu Apr 17, 6:25 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Russell King, (Sat Apr 19, 4:33 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Bartlomiej Zolnierki ..., (Sun Apr 27, 10:53 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Bartlomiej Zolnierki ..., (Sun Apr 27, 11:32 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Apr 27, 1:29 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] ARM: always select HAVE_IDE, Bartlomiej Zolnierki ..., (Sun Apr 27, 2:06 pm)