Thanks, I was just curious. On 11/3/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... > > Jeff > > > > > > -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
