From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751365AbVKXPJb (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:09:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751368AbVKXPJb (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:09:31 -0500 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:38555 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbVKXPJa (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:09:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4385D79E.5060107@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:09:18 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Drake Cc: Jan Panoch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] PATA support for Intel ICH7 (intel 945G chipset) - 2.6.14.2 References: <4383DC5E.3050601@panoch.net> <438453C9.4050200@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <438453C9.4050200@gentoo.org> 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 Daniel Drake wrote: > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches). I don't think it will be accepted > because this hardware is already supported by the ata_piix libata driver. That is not a valid reason to reject -- libata is still considered very experimental for ATAPI devices, which are not enabled by default. Jeff has said that he prefers (at present) for people with ATAPI drives to use the IDE layer rather than libata, where possible. That will change soon, but it's still the case for now. Cheers