Re: Bart's efforts?

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Jeff / Alan,
> 
> I mostly lurk here, but I know there is a long term effort/ToDo to
> move libata away from the SCSI infrastructure.
> 
> I've also seen that Bart has been making a large number of
> improvements to drivers/ide over the last little while.  From my
> limited perspective, many changes appear to be to the core
> infrastructure.
> 
> My question is if the drivers/ide infrastructure is slowly moving in
> the direction of being leverageable by libata when/if it moves out of
> scsi.  Or does the drivers/ide code simply have the wrong kind of
> plumbing for libata to ever use.

One of my key goals with libata was to "make a driver look like a 
driver" and greatly improve upon the IDE driver API, which was a 
complete and utter piece of garbage (this is no reflection on Bart, he 
inherited it).  As a result, each driver is a fully fledged 
PCI/SCSI/ATA/platform driver, without anything getting in the way.  That 
made things like controller hotplug trivial to support from day one.

Bart has definitely made many good improvements, but I don't think 
people would be surprised that I feel CONFIG_IDE is legacy...

	Jeff