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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Gaston, Jason D" <jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Cc: IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: no need to add new DID's to AHCI driver?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:19:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CC8C31.3040502@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39B20DF628532344BC7A2692CB6AEE0701AE8117@orsmsx420.amr.corp.intel.com>

Gaston, Jason D wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Now that the AHCI driver has support for all controllers with the 0x0106
> (AHCI) class code, I am not planning on adding controller DeviceID's for
> AHCI controllers.  I want to verify that this is the correct course of
> action.
> 
> Note:  I still will have to add the Intel SW "RAID" controller
> DeviceID's as they have a 0x0104 (RAID) class code.

Yep, that's fine -- and the encouraged direction.

The ideal situation for users is when new hardware is "automagically" 
supported, without needing any driver PCI ID modifications at all.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-22 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-22 18:19 no need to add new DID's to AHCI driver? Gaston, Jason D
2007-08-22 19:19 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-08-23  0:53   ` Tejun Heo

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