> I don't envisage anything in terms of code changes (or removal) coming > out of this. What I would like is a nice roadmap of where to start for > people contemplating writing IDE drivers. For the vendors I've talked with the answer is usually "both". A libata driver for the future and current distributions, and an old IDE driver for older RHEL and SLES releases. Fortunately the driver specific parts for those that are capable of running under old IDE are not too hard to plug into libata. 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