From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata: why do we need to define ATA_ENABLE_PATA instead of a CONFIG option?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:00:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307060001.GA4629@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440D17C2.60200@garzik.org>
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:18:58AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> >Currently, we can use the piix ide driver for Intel ICH5 IDE controllers,
> >or
> >use ata_piix (libata) by #defining ATA_ENABLE_PATA manually at
> >inclulde/linux/libata.h. Why not have a CONFIG option to enable libata
> >for such
> >drivers instead of a #define in the code? I was wondering if there is any
> >reason it is done this way.
>
> ATA_ENABLE_PATA is there because PATA was highly experimental for a
> while, and only developers and power users should be enabling it.
Is ata_piix still considered higly experimental? Its been around for
sometime I guess. Would this be time for a CONFIG option (atleast with
'experimental')?
Thanks,
Kiran
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 1:04 libata: why do we need to define ATA_ENABLE_PATA instead of a CONFIG option? Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-07 5:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-07 6:00 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
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