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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:00:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FCBB9F3.6050000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ad6ccixk.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv>

Greg Stark wrote:
> Is there any documentation about what libata is and what it does differently
> from the stock kernel? Why is it being developed separately instead of as a

Nothing "different" from the stock kernel; this is how all drivers are 
developed.  libata is the Serial ATA driver for Linux.  Some chipsets -- 
ICH5 and VIA SATA notably -- look so much like PATA that it's easy to 
let the existing drivers/ide driver use them.  You won't get SATA 
hotplug or similar SATA-only features, but as long as you can access 
your SATA hard drive, who cares?  :)

libata is in the "stock" 2.6 kernel, FWIW, too.

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-01 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-28 18:27 linux-2.4.23 released Marcelo Tosatti
2003-11-28 19:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-11-28 22:55 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-11-29 22:26 ` libata in 2.4.24? Samuel Flory
2003-11-29 23:10   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 10:43     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 18:06       ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 21:12         ` Greg Stark
2003-12-01 21:23           ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 21:44             ` Greg Stark
2003-12-01 22:00               ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-01 22:06               ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 22:00             ` Erik Steffl
2003-12-02  5:36               ` Greg Stark
     [not found]                 ` <20031202055336.GO1566@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com>
2003-12-02  5:58                   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 16:31                     ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 17:40                       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 18:04                         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 18:46                           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 18:49                             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-04  8:18                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-02 18:02                       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 18:51                         ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 19:06                           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 20:10                             ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 20:16                               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 20:34                                 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 22:34                               ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 23:02                                 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 23:18                                   ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 23:40                                     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-03  0:01                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03  0:47                                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-07  5:33                                   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-01 21:36           ` Justin Cormack
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-01 13:41 Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-01 14:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 19:59   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-02 22:05   ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 22:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03  0:34 Xose Vazquez Perez

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