From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@googlemail.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] pata_hpt366: fix mode configuration
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:47:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493ECB6C.3040304@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce9d8ed60812081518g5d9166baia9fb9531b472dbff@mail.gmail.com>
Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> Though I do wonder
> how sensible it is, to spend a lot of time on elegant driver
> development for this legacy hardware, as it must be nearing practical
> end of life.
..
There are tons of PCI add-on cards still out there with these chips,
and they will continue to work fine so long as PCI slots
and PATA drives exist. So we may as well ensure Linux does the Right Things (tm).
:)
Nice work, Tejun!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 7:11 [RFC PATCH] pata_hpt366: fix mode configuration Tejun Heo
2008-12-08 10:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-12-08 23:18 ` Rob OpenSuSE
2008-12-09 19:47 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-12-09 21:02 ` Rob OpenSuSE
2008-12-10 7:00 ` Tejun Heo
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