> 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. I don't think there is anything useful in old IDE that isn't in the new. However libata PATA support is not all new code, its built on and from the old IDE driver code. Similarly there is stuff recently going on in drivers/ide that is then going into drivers/ata (eg the IVB blacklists). The big issue with drivers/ide is the core code which simply can't cope with SMP or modern hardware designs. don't consider drivers/ide anything but "legacy" but lots of older systems use it and its important it stays maintained. Bart is doing whats actually a pretty thankless job - working on maintaining stuff for the short term knowing it has no real future. Alan - 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
