From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751240AbXBVRLl (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751246AbXBVRLl (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:41 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38643 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751240AbXBVRLk (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:40 -0500 Message-ID: <45DDCEC4.7050208@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:11:32 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan CC: Robert Hancock , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI driver support for pata References: <45DD2E12.6000705@shaw.ca> <45DD3F20.7050907@pobox.com> <20070222142439.50cff3e9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070222142439.50cff3e9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan wrote: > ACPI is the only way to do cable handling on the Nvidia PATA chipset. The You failed to quote the salient part of the message. Disliking a separate pata_acpi driver in no way invalidates your statement (quoted above). Jeff