From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Conke Hu <conke.hu@amd.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:23:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162383783.11965.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610312120200.25218@g5.osdl.org>
Ar Maw, 2006-10-31 am 21:22 -0800, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds:
> (We had the same issue with "PCI IDE controller". Some PCI IDE controllers
> are clearly exactly that from a programming interface standpoint, but
> because they support RAID in hardware, they claim to be RAID controllers,
> since that is more "glamorous". Gaah ;^).
Actually its far uglier than that. With one exception they don't support
hardware raid mode, they use the RAID class tag to stop other OS drivers
grabbing the interface or seeing it directly as un-raided software raid.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-01 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 15:06 AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers Conke Hu
2006-11-01 5:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-01 5:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-01 5:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-01 12:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-11-01 14:37 ` Mark Lord
2006-11-01 5:11 ` Jeff Garzik
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2006-11-01 13:39 Conke Hu
2006-11-02 13:15 ` Martin Waitz
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