Re: Remove apparently dead CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY code.

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Thu, 3 May 2007 13:53:06 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
> Remove the single snippet of code conditional on the non-existent
> CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY Kconfig variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>   i would have mailed a note about this to the ATA maintainer but it
> wasn't clear who that was.  this is the only dead CONFIG_ variable
> under drivers/ata so i figured i'd just submit the patch.

from that source file:

 *  Maintained by:  Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
 *    		    Please ALWAYS copy linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
> index d211db6..5a4821a 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
> @@ -985,16 +985,6 @@ int ata_pci_init_one (struct pci_dev *pdev, struct ata_port_info **port_info,
>  		mask = (1 << 2) | (1 << 0);
>  		if ((tmp8 & mask) != mask)
>  			legacy_mode = (1 << 3);
> -#if defined(CONFIG_NO_ATA_LEGACY)
> -		/* Some platforms with PCI limits cannot address compat
> -		   port space. In that case we punt if their firmware has
> -		   left a device in compatibility mode */
> -		if (legacy_mode) {
> -			printk(KERN_ERR "ata: Compatibility mode ATA is not supported on this platform, skipping.\n");
> -			rc = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -			goto err_out;
> -		}
> -#endif
>  	}
> 
>  	/* alloc and init host */
> -- 


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