From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269370AbUJMPwe (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:52:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269377AbUJMPwd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:52:33 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([69.28.190.101]:26001 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269370AbUJMPw3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:52:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:49:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: IDE generic tweak Message-ID: <20041013154916.GA6832@havoc.gtf.org> References: <1097677476.4764.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20041013153152.GA5458@havoc.gtf.org> <1097678363.4696.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1097678363.4696.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:39:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2004-10-13 at 16:31, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Comments ? > > > > nVidia and others have been pushing for a similar module for libata... > > at least make sure one doesn't preclude the other. > > libata can't do ATAPI and doesn't know about PATA errata so it's not > useful in libata yet. The people requesting the feature quite disagree :) nVidia for example specifically wanted it because future __SATA__ hardware will appear at the legacy IDE addresses, and end users were requesting for similar reasons. They have configurations both today and in the future where they want to use this in libata. Jeff