[PATCH] Platform bus support

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue Aug 23 13:43:05 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:21 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:57 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Support for the platform, aka legacy, bus.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Have you tested this with x86 legacy floppy drives? Have you tested this
> >with removing the hack in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev() in the file
> >hald/linux2/blockdev.c? The patch should really include code that
> >deletes this hack..
> >  
> >
> 
> Nope. Wasn't aware of such a hack. I only needed it for my MMC host
> which can operate in non-PnP mode (in which case it ends up on the
> platform bus). :)
> 
> Now the problem of finding a machine with a floppy drive...

If everything else goes wrong I can test... We probably can't commit
this patch before 2.6.13 is out though (since we'd need to depend on
features not in 2.6.12 and earlier).

    David




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