From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: remove experimental tag on PATA drivers Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:29:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20091114022951.GA9796@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4AFCC0D4.9020708@gmail.com> <200911131715.24377.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20091113182515.38fb3793@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200911140046.29450.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:40515 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755217AbZKNC37 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:29:59 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200911140046.29450.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Alan Cox , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel , ide , Jeff Garzik , Jonathan Corbet On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:46:29AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Skipping the technical merit of the quoted text for the moment -- I find > the fact that you keep calling the present IDE host drivers (that many > developers helped to fix) as "old" ones or "buggy" ones rather degrading > for their (this includes me of course) hard work. Without making any judgement about the relative quality of the drivers in their role as IDE drivers, the fact that ACPI hotplug works with libata and doesn't work with drivers/ide means that, rationally, distributions need to use the libata stack for the more common parts. There simply isn't the same level of integration between drivers/ide and the rest of the OS. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org