Greg Freemyer wrote:
Jeff / Alan, I mostly lurk here, but I know there is a long term effort/ToDo to move libata away from the SCSI infrastructure. I've also seen that Bart has been making a large number of improvements to drivers/ide over the last little while. From my limited perspective, many changes appear to be to the core infrastructure. My question is if the drivers/ide infrastructure is slowly moving in the direction of being leverageable by libata when/if it moves out of scsi. Or does the drivers/ide code simply have the wrong kind of plumbing for libata to ever use.
One of my key goals with libata was to "make a driver look like a driver" and greatly improve upon the IDE driver API, which was a complete and utter piece of garbage (this is no reflection on Bart, he inherited it). As a result, each driver is a fully fledged PCI/SCSI/ATA/platform driver, without anything getting in the way. That made things like controller hotplug trivial to support from day one.
Bart has definitely made many good improvements, but I don't think people would be surprised that I feel CONFIG_IDE is legacy...
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