From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:20:20 +0000 Message-ID: <1142936420.21455.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060320111658.GA16172@havoc.gtf.org> <1142872556.21455.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <441F52F7.8030309@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:62626 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932383AbWCUKNd (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:13:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <441F52F7.8030309@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2006-03-20 at 20:12 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > In my [no doubt warped] brain, I equate the SFF-8038 interface to "PCI > IDE BMDMA", and from there, view most hardware as a subset of PCI IDE > BMDMA. It might not do DMA, might not be PCI, might not do irqs, but > most PATA hardware seems able to be driven by a "bmdma driver". Thus, > the name :) Most of that file is ST-506 type register interfaces, only a tiny bit is SFF PCI IDE with DMA. Expect some patches soon. I've got my tree merged against the git tree now, just needs some testing. Alan