From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: libata PATA support - work items?
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:43:26 -0500
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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>

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