Alan Cox wrote:
On Llu, 2006-03-20 at 20:12 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
In my [no doubt warped] brain, I equate the SFF-8038 interface to "PCI
IDE BMDMA", and from there, view most hardware as a subset of PCI IDE
BMDMA. It might not do DMA, might not be PCI, might not do irqs, but
most PATA hardware seems able to be driven by a "bmdma driver". Thus,
the name :)
Most of that file is ST-506 type register interfaces, only a tiny bit is
SFF PCI IDE with DMA.
Expect some patches soon. I've got my tree merged against the git tree
now, just needs some testing.
To be specific, are the patches against libata-dev.git 'upstream' branch?
(most should apply to Linus-vanilla branch, so regardless of the
definition of "the git tree" it should be OK)
Jeff
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