From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libata PATA status
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:25:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468D7DD4.9060306@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73k5tg2uj9.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> My personal wish list feature would be a little forwarder driver
> to forward /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* for this; then old IDE could be
> disabled without risking breaking old root file systems.
That's on the long-term TODO list.
libata is moving towards making libata-scsi an optional module (will
always be around for ATAPI, and for compat with current ATA), and
driving ATA disks as a native block driver, rather than having SCSI do
the work for us.
libata's qc_issue/qc_complete high level API and internal modularity
were designed to make this possible. It is easy to see in the current
code how libata-scsi is merely a user of the qc_issue/qc_complete API,
with all the low-level details isolated away from that module.
Addendum: Remember too, /dev/hdX is not just a major/minor pair, but a
userspace interface, complete with expected ioctl support.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-05 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 17:51 Libata PATA status Alan Cox
2007-07-04 3:04 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-07-04 9:21 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 11:31 ` Marc Dietrich
2007-07-04 12:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 14:18 ` Marc Dietrich
[not found] ` <20070705183355.187e96bc@the-village.bc.nu>
2007-07-06 8:58 ` Marc Dietrich
2007-07-04 13:00 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04 12:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 13:02 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 13:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04 14:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 14:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-04 12:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-05 23:25 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-07-05 22:27 ` Rod Whitby
2007-07-06 9:48 ` Libata PATA status (pata_artop) Michael-Luke Jones
2007-07-10 11:53 ` sata-via failure on 2.6.22 for via 6421 chipset (Was: Libata PATA status) Rod Whitby
2007-08-13 13:42 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-04 9:17 Libata PATA status Mikael Pettersson
2007-07-05 8:18 Chris Rankin
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