Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 0/2] Convert Atari Falcon IDE driver to platform device

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Michael,

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 8:17 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/19 12:04 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:03 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Am 27.10.2019 um 07:17 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> >>>> Who's going to pick this one up? I can do it, but it'd be nice to have
> >>>> m68k on patch 1 first.
> >>> Sorry for the late reply.  I'll have a closer look after ELC-E, and will apply
> >>> to the m68k tree if it passes.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, I believe v1 of both patches has been acked by Bartlomiej?
> >> Correct - on July 3rd. I totally forgot about that, and didn't add his
> >> Acked-by in v2, sorry.
> > OK.
> >
> > I was about to queue the combined patch, until I realized the defconfigs
> > default to falconide, which is broken by patch 1/2.
> > My proposed solution for that is:
> >    1. Switch the defconfigs from falconide to pata_falcon,
>
> Ack.
>
> >    2. Remove the legacy falconide driver.
>
> Nack - I still use that one (because pata_falcon has no support for
> using interrupts with the Falcon IDE interface, and I'm unsure how much
> more kernel bloat libata will add). Need to check the impact of
> switching to pata_falcon first.

Oh, I forgot about that.
So yes, in that case pata_falcon is not a viable alternative yet.
However, that means we can only avoid regressions by converting
falconide to the new platform device, too, and doing that together, atomically,
with your 2 patches in this series.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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