On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 03:33:13PM +0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> > You are duplicating functionality of CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS,
> > please find a way to use it for EMBEDDED.
> >
> > Also please cc: linux-ide on IDE related patches.
> >
> > On 11/11/05, Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Configurable number of supported IDE interfaces
> >>
> >> This overrides the default limit (which may be set per arch with
> >> CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS). This is the result of setting interfaces to 1:
>
> This is very similar to my unaccepted patch a few months ago:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/25/69
And it's practically identical to the one that's been in my -tiny tree
for two years.
I agree with Alan's complaint that this should in fact be done with
dynamic allocation. However, when I last set out to do that, it
appeared to be an _extremely_ invasive change so I quickly abandoned
it.
Meanwhile, this is currently the largest static allocation in a
typical kernel. Something has to be done.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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