> The cost and risk is testing the morphing changes, but I think the > scales tip towards making this truly worth it. The cost and risk is taking two stable and quite maintainable stacks and turning them into one unmaintainable broken one.. I'm a little surprised that the old IDE layer which was supposed to be maintenance only is getting this treatment - except for the research value of seeing what the differences are in the drivers. I'm amazed that you'd suggest trashing the current ATA stack to make the maintenance of the old ones easier - which aren't supposed to be in flux in the first place. 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