From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Some sata_mv error messages Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:37:13 -0500 Message-ID: <442055E9.4010708@pobox.com> References: <20060318044056.350a2931.akpm@osdl.org> <20060320133318.GB32762@favonius> <441F508E.1030008@pobox.com> <441F8599.7080703@rtr.ca> <44205513.8030109@poolshark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:4013 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965059AbWCUThS (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:37:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <44205513.8030109@poolshark.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Denis Leroy Cc: Mark Lord , sander@humilis.net, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lkml@rtr.ca Denis Leroy wrote: > This is great news. Is there any relationship between the development of > this driver and the one maintained by Marvell that's available from > their web site ? Their latest version (3.6.1) is released under the GPL, > and is a very solid driver based our experience with it over the past > few years, though it's targeted at older versions of the linux kernel > and needs some porting to 2.6.16 (and contains redundant stuff like its > own scsi-ata layer). There is a we-use-that-driver-as-documentation-sometimes relationship. It's quite un-Linux for a Linux driver, and others have reported that sata_mv in its current state is more stable for them than the Marvell behemoth GPL driver. Jeff