On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:38:39 Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 11/18/2009 02:56 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2009 20:07:07 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2009 19:41:25 Alan Cox wrote: > >>>> Maybe they are 'stable' but when it comes to features they are behind hpt366 > >>>> (i.e. they lack PCI PM), which is also much cleaner than your drivers, easier > >>>> to understand and much smaller.. > >>> > >>> 37x and 3xn lack PCI PM. Added to the TODO list. > >>> > >>> The smaller size is a bit questionable given its mostly comments, and > >>> three drivers versus one. > >> > >> I wonder what you find 'questionable' in the numbers given.. > > > > BTW we can immediately reclaim 300 LOC by simply merging drivers back.. > > Merging drivers is a big pain for distributions and end users, even with > the new module_alias facility. Could please explain in more detail 'a big pain' part? > Absent stronger justification, libata remains with separate drivers, > even if that means some code duplication. I can always hold my own tree with such changes if needed. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- 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
