From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:48:32 -0400 Message-ID: <44FDE2A0.3080705@tmr.com> References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> <1157371363.30801.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:20646 "EHLO pixels.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161047AbWIEUo0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:44:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1157371363.30801.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 07:01 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik: >> The following must be in all caps, though: >> >> drivers/ide IS STILL THE PATA DRIVER SET THAT USERS AND DISTROS SHOULD >> CHOOSE. > > Except optionally for the following for chips not handled by or broken > totally in drivers/ide: > > pata_mpiix - some early pentium era laptops > pata_oldpiix - original "PIIX" chipset > pata_radisys - embedded chipset > > The other apparently "libata only" chips are pata_jmicron and > pata_optidma. There are patches to handle these as "generic" PCI IDE in > the base 2.6.18 tree already so only features will be lost (eg mode > switching). As Jeff implies distributions should be using drivers/ide > for the Jmicron PATA and the Opti DMA PATA for now. > >> * /dev/sdX supports fewer partitions than /dev/hdX (16 versus 64, IIRC) >> >> * /dev/sdX does not support all the HDIO_xxx ioctls that /dev/hdX does. >> In practice, the ioctls we ignored are ones that very few people care >> about. > > Add "/dev/sr*" does not support partitions. (That needs fixing anyway) > >> * ARM, PPC and other non-x86 platform drivers are severely >> under-represented. > > libata needs changes for this too. I have some stuff saved from the > older discussions to look at. > >> As an aside, I would love to see paride updated to use libata, but we >> can probably count the number of paride users on one hand these days... > > and thats without using fingers or thumbs. > > I still use that interface, although I can't say it's critical if I can't upgrade at some point. There are some other users in the local UG, but they are probably not ever going to upgrade. -- Bill Davidsen Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.