From: Alan Cox This was put in for PPC specifically and defined in the 2.4 tree to be paranoid about breaking stuff. The actual wait for hwif spin up is however perfectly correct for all drives. In the normal PC case the PC BIOS has done this but with other embedded boxes and with things like LinuxBIOS it may not have done. Thus it should always be done. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 4 ---- 1 files changed, 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/ide/ide-probe.c~ide-do-spin-up-for-all-platforms drivers/ide/ide-probe.c --- 25/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c~ide-do-spin-up-for-all-platforms Mon Aug 9 14:15:19 2004 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Mon Aug 9 14:15:19 2004 @@ -635,7 +635,6 @@ static void hwif_register (ide_hwif_t *h device_register(&hwif->gendev); } -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC static int wait_hwif_ready(ide_hwif_t *hwif) { int rc; @@ -671,7 +670,6 @@ static int wait_hwif_ready(ide_hwif_t *h return rc; } -#endif /* * This routine only knows how to look for drive units 0 and 1 @@ -717,7 +715,6 @@ static void probe_hwif(ide_hwif_t *hwif) local_irq_set(flags); -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC /* This is needed on some PPCs and a bunch of BIOS-less embedded * platforms. Typical cases are: * @@ -739,7 +736,6 @@ static void probe_hwif(ide_hwif_t *hwif) */ if (wait_hwif_ready(hwif)) printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Wait for ready failed before probe !\n", hwif->name); -#endif /* CONFIG_PPC */ /* * Second drive should only exist if first drive was found, _