From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] pata: Update experimental tags
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:47:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B04413D.30302@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091118184125.623e063d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
>>Having separate drivers wasn't the best decisions from the maintainability
>>point-of-view. It added needless complexity (different chips share the same
> It was most definitely a good decision, having maintained both sets of
Separating HPT36x was grounded enough decision but I can't say the same
of the separation of HPT3xxN.
> drivers at different times. It also makes it possible to do things the
> way highpoint does
Oh, don't remind me of that stupid code mostly not worth copying from...
>>PCI IDs which make detection across multiple drivers extremely painful) and
>>confusion (i.e. would you have guessed that HPT302 is supported by pata_hpt37x
>>while HPT302N by pata_hpt3x2n?).
How about HPT371N? ;-)
WBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 14:50 [PATCH 0/5] Series short description Alan Cox
2009-11-17 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] pata_via: Blacklist some combinations of Transcend Flash and via Alan Cox
2009-11-17 14:51 ` [PATCH 2/5] pata_sis: Implement MWDMA for the UDMA 133 capable chips Alan Cox
2009-11-17 17:27 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-17 17:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-17 17:57 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-17 18:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-17 19:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-17 14:51 ` [PATCH 3/5] cmd64x: implement serialization as per notes Alan Cox
2009-11-17 17:35 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-17 18:08 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-17 14:51 ` [PATCH 4/5] pata: Update experimental tags Alan Cox
2009-11-17 22:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-18 18:19 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-18 18:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 18:47 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2009-11-18 19:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-18 19:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-18 19:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 14:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 14:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 15:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 15:24 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 15:22 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 15:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 16:27 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 17:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 17:38 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 17:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 18:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 18:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-19 19:03 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 19:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 19:42 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 19:54 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 21:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-19 21:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-19 19:40 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 21:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-20 18:20 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-19 18:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 21:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-19 14:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 14:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-19 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 14:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-19 14:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 21:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-19 21:49 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 22:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-20 21:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 23:42 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-18 19:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-18 19:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 21:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-19 21:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-19 21:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-19 23:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-17 14:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] pata_piccolo: Driver for old Toshiba chipsets Alan Cox
2009-11-27 14:28 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-11-27 15:34 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-19 21:41 ` [PATCH 0/5] Series short description Jeff Garzik
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