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

Pawel Moll pawel.moll at arm.com
Mon Sep 19 06:23:15 EDT 2011


> > 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.

Cheers!

Paweł





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