Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE

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On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 15:46 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/08/03 19:45 (GMT-0100) Alan Cox apparently typed:
> 
> > ...Right now we have platforms that need old IDE and it is still
> > proving very useful to be able to ask people to try both. I don't quite
> > know why Bart is putting so much effort into polishing up the old IDE...
> 
> Maybe he's one of few who understand that there is no upgrade path to
> some when libata displaces ide. More than half my dozens of / partitions
> live above #15, and none of the distros I'm aware of have presented any other
> upgrade option but to stick with ide.

This is definitely an issue on a lot of Macs too.

Ben.


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