[RFT PATCH] arm: omap1_defconfig: convert to use libata PATA drivers
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Sun Aug 16 23:34:55 PDT 2015
* Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com> [150814 10:10]:
> IDE subsystem has been deprecated since 2009 and the majority
> (if not all) of Linux distributions have switched to use
> libata for ATA support exclusively. However there are still
> some users (mostly old or/and embedded non-x86 systems) that
> have not converted from using IDE subsystem to libata PATA
> drivers. This doesn't seem to be good thing in the long-term
> for Linux as while there is less and less PATA systems left
> in use:
>
> * testing efforts are divided between two subsystems
>
> * having duplicate drivers for same hardware confuses users
>
> This patch converts omap1_defconfig to use libata PATA
> drivers.
>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
> ---
> Build tested only.
> If you have affected hardware please test. Thank you.
All my omap1 devices are in a rack using NFSroot or MMC so
I can't test this. Seems like a good idea to me thoug, and does
not cause merge conflicts. So if you want to queue this via
along with other PATA related patches, please feel free to
add:
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig
> index 0c8a787..6ffc984 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/omap1_defconfig
> @@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=2
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=8192
> -CONFIG_IDE=m
> -CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> # CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
> CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
> CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
> +CONFIG_ATA=m
> +CONFIG_PATA_PCMCIA=m
> CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
> CONFIG_TUN=y
> CONFIG_PHYLIB=y
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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