Subject: Re: [PATCH] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:51:06 +0300

Hello, I wrote:

>>Change the default for the built-in IDE on p610/p615/p630 from
>>ide to libata. libata has better error handling and the drive can
>>recover when hald does its CD media polling.

>>Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>

>>Index: linux-2.6.20/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux-2.6.20.orig/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig
>>+++ linux-2.6.20/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig
>>@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set
>>-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105=y
>>+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
>>@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ CONFIG_SATA_SVW=y
>> # CONFIG_PATA_SIL680 is not set
>> # CONFIG_PATA_SIS is not set
>> # CONFIG_PATA_VIA is not set
>>-# CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND is not set
>>+CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND=y
>> 
>> #
>> # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
>>Index: linux-2.6.20/arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux-2.6.20.orig/arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig
>>+++ linux-2.6.20/arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig
>>@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set
>>-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105=y
>>+# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
>>@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ CONFIG_ATA=y
>> # CONFIG_PATA_SIL680 is not set
>> # CONFIG_PATA_SIS is not set
>> # CONFIG_PATA_VIA is not set
>>-# CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND is not set
>>+CONFIG_PATA_WINBOND=y

>     I'm sorry, how those 2 drivers can be equivalent?! The pata_winbond driver 

    Sorry indeed -- I didn't realize PATA_WINBOND correscponds to 
pata_sl82c105 (somewhat confusing, isn't it?).

WBR, Sergei