Dear Albert ARIBAUD, In message <4c8521a8.6050...@free.fr> you wrote: > > I don't see much benefit in allocating dynamically rather than > statically unless you are really tight on RAM, which seems to not fit > with a board which has many busses and disks. > > Plus, IDE may not know about hotplugging, but SATA does, which means I > can do an ide_init(), plug or unplug disks, and do an ide_init() again > with a different number of devices. Dynamic allocation requires resizing > the allocated arrays; static is just less trouble. > > Anyway, static vs dynamic can be done in a second step after adding N > busses (and thereby fixing the issue of ghost devices that prompted > Rogan's patch proposal).
OK, I agree. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there is. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
