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:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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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