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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:05:28 +0100
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Bump MAX_HWIFS in IDE code
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Anton, IDE driver is limited to 10 major numbers anyway
so please just use 10 for now...

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:12:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 13:12 -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:55:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > hrmph.  That costs 50kbytes, excluding ide-tape.  It's worth a
> > > config variable, I think.
> >
> > this come up from time to time, and i wonder why it can't be dynamic?
> 
> Good question :) I suppose Bart has that on his todolist, but it will
> require some work on the IDE layer, which only few people can do without
> breaking it all :)

Yes I'm working on it and I will need some help with fixing PPC drivers. :)