From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com>,
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>,
Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>,
IDE Linux <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Doug Maxey <dwm@maxeymade.com>, dan mares <dmares@dmares.com>
Subject: Re: libata PATA support - work items?
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:43:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41DB2A1E.2020809@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e05010314092d421aee@mail.gmail.com>
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Existing IDE drivers are not going away any time soon (not 2.6.x at least)
> and if/when this happens we shouldn't drop CHS support completely
> from the kernel - IMHO it is quite easy to add CHS support to libata.
> I also agree that libata PATA development should be focused on LBA
> but I don't see any problem in keeping CHS support around...
I don't think it's a problem to support C/H/S in libata. libata already
has to handle lba28/lba48, CHS would simply be a third instance of the
"fill read/write taskfile" code.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-04 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-30 10:42 libata PATA support - work items? Albert Lee
2005-01-01 19:19 ` Eric Mudama
2005-01-03 20:56 ` Greg Freemyer
2005-01-03 21:20 ` Eric Mudama
2005-01-03 22:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-04 23:43 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-01-04 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-05 0:50 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-05 2:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-05 3:43 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-05 12:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-04 23:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-06 8:51 ` Albert Lee
2005-01-06 21:29 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-06 23:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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