From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: IDE generic tweak
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:49:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041013154916.GA6832@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097678363.4696.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:39:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2004-10-13 at 16:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Comments ?
> >
> > nVidia and others have been pushing for a similar module for libata...
> > at least make sure one doesn't preclude the other.
>
> libata can't do ATAPI and doesn't know about PATA errata so it's not
> useful in libata yet.
The people requesting the feature quite disagree :)
nVidia for example specifically wanted it because future __SATA__
hardware will appear at the legacy IDE addresses, and end users were
requesting for similar reasons.
They have configurations both today and in the future where they want to
use this in libata.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 14:24 PATCH: IDE generic tweak Alan Cox
2004-10-13 15:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 15:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-13 14:54 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 19:46 ` Jeff Garzik
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