Re: [PATCH] libata: remove experimental tag on PATA drivers

Matthew Garrett
2009-11-14T02:30:03Z

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:46:29AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> Skipping the technical merit of the quoted text for the moment -- I find
> the fact that you keep calling the present IDE host drivers (that many
> developers helped to fix) as "old" ones or "buggy" ones rather degrading
> for their (this includes me of course) hard work.

Without making any judgement about the relative quality of the drivers
in their role as IDE drivers, the fact that ACPI hotplug works with
libata and doesn't work with drivers/ide means that, rationally,
distributions need to use the libata stack for the more common parts.
There simply isn't the same level of integration between drivers/ide and
the rest of the OS.

--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org