RE: Wish for 2006 to Alan Cox and Jeff Garzik: A functional Driverfor PDC202XX

["Erik Ohrnberger" <Erik@echohome.org>]

OK, Success!

I have to admit that without the hint from Mike Snitzer, I wouldn't have put
it all together.  The key piece of information that he provided was:

> From: Mike Snitzer [mailto:snitzer@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:40 AM
> To: Erik@echohome.org
> Subject: Re: Wish for 2006 to Alan Cox and Jeff Garzik: A 
> functional Driverfor PDC202XX
> 
> Alan's initial response to you was:

<snip>

> But looking closer it is clear that the 
> drivers/scsi/pata_pdc2027x.c source file provides support for 
> your 20268 card.  But the Kconfig and makefile changes to 
> expose this driver in an official way weren't included in 
> Alan's patch.  So you just need to add something like the 
> following to drivers/scsi/Makefile:
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PATA_PDC)     += libata.o pata_pdc2027x.o
> 
> Similarly you need a new entry in drivers/scsi/Kconfig that 
> resembles something like:
> 
> config SCSI_PATA_PDC
>        tristate "Newer Promise PATA controller support 
> (Raving Lunatic)"
>        depends on SCSI_SATA && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
>        help
>          This option enables support for the Promise 20268 through
> 20277 adapters.
> 
>          If unsure, say N.
> 
> Once you modify those 2 files and select the "Newer Promise ..."
> option with make menuconfig; then rebuild with 'make' you 
> should see something like:
> 
> > make

Many thanks Mike!

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