From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] jmicron: make ide jmicron driver play nice with libata ones Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:53:57 +0100 Message-ID: <200703172253.57413.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20070316060610.GA6152@htj.dyndns.org> <200703172136.20784.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20070317221311.2d114d2d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:8472 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713AbXCQVqk (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:46:40 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so991780uga for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:46:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070317221311.2d114d2d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, justin@jmicron.com On Saturday 17 March 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > PATA ports live in separate functions with different programming > > > interfaces. pata_jmicron and ide jmicron drivers can drive only the > > > PATA part. > > This isn't actually true. The IDE jmicron driver can drive both the PATA > and the SATA parts in legacy mode. It cannot drive the SATA part in AHCI > mode. Yes but the quoted sentence is missing the full context: > When libata is configured, the device is configured such that SATA and > PATA ports live in separate functions with different programming > interfaces. pata_jmicron and ide jmicron drivers can drive only the > PATA part. when libata is configured jmicron is _always_ programmed for native mode Bart