From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] schedule BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA for removal
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:56:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18044.39404.380472.887065@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070622101019.0f3b0d3d@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox writes:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:39:45 +0800
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 01:52 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Users should use the libata based drivers for SATA drives.
> >
> > NAK. Not all IDE drivers are converted yet. Not even all the relatively
> > common ones.
>
> All the common SATA ones are. Just the PowerPC people are falling behind.
> Really we should obsolete powerpc instead ;)
What SATA drive uses a non-libata driver on PowerPC? In fact the
sata_svw driver used for SATA drives on G5s was one of the early
libata drivers. Or are you talking about PATA?
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-21 23:52 Adrian Bunk
2007-06-22 3:39 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-22 3:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-22 9:10 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 3:56 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2007-06-23 4:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-22 9:02 ` Alan Cox
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