Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:55:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 11:38 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > * removing IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT define has some implications,
> >   * non-functional ide-cs driver (but there is no PCMCIA on IA64?)
> 
> IA64 systems can support PCI->Cardbus/PCMCIA cards so they do actually
> need this support. They could also do with cardbus IDE support but that
> means a whole pile of patches still although the refcounting stuff means
> its a lot closer to doable now

Then IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT needs to be added back for all other
architectures that support PCI too ...

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