On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:18:58AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > >Currently, we can use the piix ide driver for Intel ICH5 IDE controllers, > >or > >use ata_piix (libata) by #defining ATA_ENABLE_PATA manually at > >inclulde/linux/libata.h. Why not have a CONFIG option to enable libata > >for such > >drivers instead of a #define in the code? I was wondering if there is any > >reason it is done this way. > > ATA_ENABLE_PATA is there because PATA was highly experimental for a > while, and only developers and power users should be enabling it. Is ata_piix still considered higly experimental? Its been around for sometime I guess. Would this be time for a CONFIG option (atleast with 'experimental')? Thanks, Kiran - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
