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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers in libata?
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:38:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108334326.19353.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420FA1B9.6030100@pobox.com>

On Sul, 2005-02-13 at 18:51, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> libata-dev now has two drivers that support PATA, pata_pdc2027x and 
> ata_piix, and the core is getting close (DMA blacklist in, C/H/S support 
> close).

Do you have DMA change down sorted - CRC error, drop speed and/or switch
to PIO then later flip back. Thats one real horror to get right and one
thats badly screwy in the current IDE code (-ac IDE can hang the box for
ages, base will sometimes crash)

> * With ATA passthru (in libata-dev currently), libata supports SMART and 
> the HDIO_CMD/HDIO_TASK generalized ioctls.  Should I care about 
> supporting other ioctls?

I'd rather the libata driver just had the sane ioctls

> * pci_enable_device() issues?

Nothing really special there, pci_disable_device can be funny thats all.

> * power management differences?

AFAIK only the "I have a cache but no flush command" issue

I'm all for burying the old IDE layer


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-13 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-13 18:51 PATA drivers in libata? Jeff Garzik
2005-02-13 21:12 ` Mark Hahn
2005-02-13 22:01   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14  0:19     ` Doug Maxey
2005-02-14  0:25       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-13 22:38 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-02-14  0:16   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-14 20:42     ` Alan Cox
2005-02-17  1:13       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-17  1:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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