From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932468AbVJTQpa (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932462AbVJTQpa (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:45:30 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([216.148.227.117]:13986 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932451AbVJTQp3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:45:29 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fix broken Kconfig setup Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:45:21 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.91 Cc: Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com References: <20051017044606.GA1266@havoc.gtf.org> <200510171006.39206.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <1129817684.15200.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1129817684.15200.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510200945.22022.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:14 am, Alan Cox wrote: > Now that libata is beginning to behave well I'd vote for that option, > however in kernel libata lacks several essential items for PATA > feature parity (HPA, ATAPI, suspend/resume, correct tuning). It's > getting there and I've got some more stuff waiting for Jeff, but it > isn't there yet Yeah, that seems like the best thing to do in the long run. Of course it has to wait until libata at least has ATAPI support I'd imagine. Jeff also mentioned that it would require changes to the legacy IDE driver to prevent it from binding to certain PCI devices (and given that it just uses I/O ports that might get hackish). Jesse