[PATCH] pata-generic/of: Make probing via device tree non-powerpc-specific

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Mon Sep 19 06:56:11 EDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com> wrote:
>> > This may not be the correct way to support the CF slot on Versatile
>> > Express - it depends whether the CF slot on VE supports just CF
>> > memory cards or whether it can take any CF card.
>> >
>> > If the latter, then what may be inserted could be a CF network card,
>> > and that means it's probably wrong to tell the kernel that what's
>> > there is a PATA interface.
>>
>> Interesting point.  I don't know whether we've tried plugging anything
>> else in...
>>
>> Pawel, can you comment?
>
> VE officially supports CF memory cards only (Arnd already referenced the
> spec). So in this case CF == PATA.

OK, Il'l stick with this for now.

Cheers
---Dave



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