From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:28 +1000 Message-ID: <1217828248.24157.55.camel@pasglop> References: <1217779055.4179.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080803173941.314edf33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1217783433.4179.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080803194501.24fa3e51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48960B28.2040709@ij.net> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:53710 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752359AbYHDFhe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:37:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48960B28.2040709@ij.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Felix Miata Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 15:46 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/08/03 19:45 (GMT-0100) Alan Cox apparently typed: > > > ...Right now we have platforms that need old IDE and it is still > > proving very useful to be able to ask people to try both. I don't quite > > know why Bart is putting so much effort into polishing up the old IDE... > > Maybe he's one of few who understand that there is no upgrade path to > some when libata displaces ide. More than half my dozens of / partitions > live above #15, and none of the distros I'm aware of have presented any other > upgrade option but to stick with ide. This is definitely an issue on a lot of Macs too. Ben.