From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264095AbTLAWAn (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:00:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264110AbTLAWAn (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:00:43 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:6597 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264095AbTLAWAm (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:00:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCBB9F3.6050000@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:00:19 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Stark CC: Samuel Flory , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24? References: <3FCB8312.3050703@rackable.com> <87fzg4ckej.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> <3FCBB15F.7050505@rackable.com> <87ad6ccixk.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> In-Reply-To: <87ad6ccixk.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg Stark wrote: > Is there any documentation about what libata is and what it does differently > from the stock kernel? Why is it being developed separately instead of as a Nothing "different" from the stock kernel; this is how all drivers are developed. libata is the Serial ATA driver for Linux. Some chipsets -- ICH5 and VIA SATA notably -- look so much like PATA that it's easy to let the existing drivers/ide driver use them. You won't get SATA hotplug or similar SATA-only features, but as long as you can access your SATA hard drive, who cares? :) libata is in the "stock" 2.6 kernel, FWIW, too. Jeff