From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:08:46 +0900 Message-ID: <48962C6E.5080802@kernel.org> References: <1217779055.4179.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080803173941.314edf33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1217783433.4179.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080803194501.24fa3e51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48960B28.2040709@ij.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:54758 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756079AbYHCWJt (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:09:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48960B28.2040709@ij.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Felix Miata Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/08/03 19:45 (GMT-0100) Alan Cox apparently typed: > >> ...Right now we have platforms that need old IDE and it is still >> proving very useful to be able to ask people to try both. I don't quite >> know why Bart is putting so much effort into polishing up the old IDE... > > Maybe he's one of few who understand that there is no upgrade path to some when libata displaces ide. More than half my dozens of / partitions live above #15, and none of the distros I'm aware of have presented any other > upgrade option but to stick with ide. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.1/2568.html Dunno it will get in tho. -- tejun