From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Oster Subject: Re: IDE class driver with SATA controllers Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:45:32 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1094053532.4135ee9c29c2f@secure.frodoid.org> References: <4135CC6E.3050508@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from enterprise.spok.net ([213.139.94.155]:46497 "EHLO susi.ggom.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267195AbUIAPpd (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:45:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4135CC6E.3050508@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Chew , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, Alan Cox Quoting Jeff Garzik : Hello Jeff, > With regards to libata being the default, making that an _option_ is > feasible, but we will probably default to the IDE driver for quite some > time. There are issues of /dev/hda versus /dev/sda, keeping existing > user setups working, etc. once there is reasonable support to indeed use libata as default, we could just wrap a pass through IDE driver around, which allocates the major numbers for /dev/hd* and just feeds everything to libata. Or are the semantics too different? Regards, Julien ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/