On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Stan Cunningham <stan.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Libata supports more prehistoric pointless > > ISA and VLB controllers than drivers/ide. > > Perhaps, but the ultimate goal for libata should be to support *all* the hardware that works under drivers/ide. Until that's achieved, drivers/ide is still needed despite the drawbacks of having two frameworks. I don't have a problem having two frameworks, one of which is just used by things like the commode amiga and other ancient relics. If one of the tiny number of users of the port wants libata they can probably port it over in a few minutes and then spend a week recompiling ;) > BTW, I recall there was another attempt at writing a libata driver for Apple hardware, namely pata_macio by Benjamin Herrenschmidt. Yes Ben is working on this stuff now 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
