> driver to using platform-device. I got a reply, that it's not worth it now > that IDE is slowly becoming obsolete, and the pata_platform serves the > perpose perfectly well. I found this argument reasonable, I had the same > doubt, just wanted to double-check. So, why do we now need a new legacy > (a/drivers/ide/legacy/ide_platform.c) driver when a "modern" driver > exists?
We don't *need* it but some people still want to use old IDE and the author was willing to make it neatly compatible so that anything that works with the pata_platform should be able to use the ide_platform driver and vice versa. For the shorter term that can only be a good thing - arch code doesn't need to care about which driver is used, end users can pick and it doesn't end up adding new ties between code and old IDE. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
