Subject: Re: ide_init_hwif_ports

From: "Joseph P. Garcia" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:20:28 -0600

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:41:19 +1100 (EST)
Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]> wrote:
> So I am proposing to drop ppc_md.ide_init_hwif_ports and change the
> definition of ide_init_hwif_ports in include/asm-ppc/ide.h to the one
> above.
>
> Comments?

I'm not sure about details, so bare with my ignorance. :)

Will a call to ide.c:ide_register() then be using a generic ide_init_hwif_ports?

If so, since the pmac mediabay has a pmac port arrangement, it will need a modification.  It's call to ide_register() would be replaced with a direct call to pmac_ide_init_hwif_ports() followed by ide_register_hw().

While ide_pmac.c registers mediabay's inserted before booting, anything hotswapped is handled by mediabay.c.  There was a time (maybe still now) that some source trees made the pmac's entry in ppc.md_ide_init_hwif_ports generic, breaking the existing code in mediabay.

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