On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. The contrary is also true, for modern drivers/ide conversion of libata PATA driver to use drivers/ide should usually be a matter of an hour or two. I think that the conversion of libata drivers for PATA hardware that is not supported by drivers/ide currently should be doable by somebody knowing both subsystems in less than 24h. I'm not doing it only because it will make me a maintainer of even more host drivers than currently and I don't have a time for it. I'll happily accept patches though. Thanks, Bart -- 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
