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Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm6
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Ar Gwe, 2006-07-07 am 13:39 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
> The user doesn't know about soldered bridge chips.  The user knows if he 
> is plugging a PATA or SATA cable into his controller.

In which case the pata_ prefix isnt much use because people soldered
bridge chips onto just about everything in the first SATA rush, before
they all switched to chips that actually did SATA.

Alan