[Avila] My patch for Gateworks IDE/CF driver does not probe for devices at boot

[David Acker]

Petros wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I' m trying to make a patch that adds the original gateworks ide/cf 
> driver in kernel 2.6 (2.6.14.7). I build it in the kernel, but it does 
> not probe for the avila ide at boot (no relevant printk messages are 
> shown). A reason for this could be that the code also depends on other 
> parts of the kernel that I forget to enable or parts that need to be 
> modified. For example, there is also an ide-arm.c file in 
> drivers/ide/arm/ which is not built. I' m not sure if this is needed for 
> Avila ide to be probed at boot. This is regulated in drivers/ide/Kconfig 
> as:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> config IDE_ARM
>   def_bool ARM && (ARCH_A5K || ARCH_CLPS7500 || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_SHARK)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Do I need to add ARCH_AVILA?
> 
> Any other ideas? Please, help me make this patch work!
> 

Check out the nslu2 folks.  They have working gateworks patches:
http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk/patches/2.6.19/
or
http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk/patches/2.6.18/

These might lead to what is missing in your patch.
-Ack