From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932390AbVKXQqz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:46:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932420AbVKXQqz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:46:55 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:60299 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932390AbVKXQqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:46:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4385EE73.1020709@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:46:43 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Daniel Drake , 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> <4385D79E.5060107@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4385D79E.5060107@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Mark Lord wrote: > 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. [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [69.134.188.146 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > 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. PATA ATAPI, not all ATAPI... Jeff