Re: [PATCH] ide_cs: Make ide_cs work with the memory space of CF-Cards if IO space is not available

From: Russell King
Date: Thu May 11 2006 - 18:42:43 EST


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 04:10 +0200, Thomas Kleffel (maintech GmbH) wrote:
> > From: Thomas Kleffel <tk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > this patch enables ide_cs to access CF-cards via their common memory
> > rather than via their IO space.
>
> One obvious problem. Your patch simply sets io_base to an ioremap value.
> The ide_cs code assumes port accesses (eg it does outb() on base + 2).
> While outb() may happen to work on ARM on ioremap returns it doesn't on
> most platforms.

And it doesn't even work on all ARM platforms. I wish ARM folk would
recognise the difference between the different address spaces and stop
confusing them.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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