[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 3/3] edmini: add IDE support

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert ARIBAUD [mailto:albert.aribaud at free.fr] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7:39 PM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 3/3] edmini: add IDE support
> 
> Le 07/07/2010 13:46, Prafulla Wadaskar a écrit :
> 
> >> If you mean 'why not make this a standalone driver, e.g.
> >> driver/net/mvsata_ide.{ch} under a configuration option
> >> CONFIG_MVSATA_IDE' -- why not, but it would basically be empty of
> >> 'driving' functionality (this is handled by cmd_ide) and would only
> >> provide initialization code, subject to board options (e.g.
> >> CONFIG_MVSATA_IDE_ENABLE_PORT{0,1}).
> >
> > then you should add below initialization code in cpu.c for 
> respective SoCs
> > and function call here
> 
> Ok, but that means duplicating this code across SoCs aven 
> though it is 
> actually identical for all of them.

That's why I initially suggested to put it as separate driver than can be used across SoCs.
Even though it is very small code, it makes more sense creating driver for it.

Regards..
Prafulla . .