From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266187AbUIAPvA (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:51:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267254AbUIAPrv (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:47:51 -0400 Received: from enterprise.spok.net ([213.139.94.155]:46497 "EHLO susi.ggom.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267195AbUIAPpd (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:45:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1094053532.4135ee9c29c2f@secure.frodoid.org> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:45:32 +0200 From: Julien Oster To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Chew , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, Alan Cox Subject: Re: IDE class driver with SATA controllers References: <4135CC6E.3050508@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4135CC6E.3050508@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 X-Originating-IP: 62.225.162.75 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Jeff Garzik : Hello Jeff, > With regards to libata being the default, making that an _option_ is > feasible, but we will probably default to the IDE driver for quite some > time. There are issues of /dev/hda versus /dev/sda, keeping existing > user setups working, etc. once there is reasonable support to indeed use libata as default, we could just wrap a pass through IDE driver around, which allocates the major numbers for /dev/hd* and just feeds everything to libata. Or are the semantics too different? Regards, Julien ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/