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SubjectRe: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash interface.
Hello.

Alan Cox wrote:

>> OTOH, CF support via self-contained driver is certainly a waste of code
>> since IDE core and (libata) are here to drive the CF devices as well.
>> What we need is a "normal" IDE or libata (at your option) driver.
>>
>
> A libata driver would be nice and probably easiest to do as you don't
> have to pretend to be close to old style taskfile IDE for a PC.
>

AFAIU you don't need to pretend that with IDE as well now.

> I am not convinced there is no case for a 'dumb' small CF driver, but if
> so the chipset code and the core code need to be separated as the other
> requests I see for this are different embedded boxes wanting to keep
> codesize down.
>

Yeah, that might be worth considering...

> Alan
>

WBR, Sergei




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