Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265887AbUIOMhJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:37:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265489AbUIOMhI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:37:08 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:39833 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264953AbUIOMhC (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4148370B.4070704@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:35:23 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2 References: <41471163.10709@rtr.ca> <414723B0.1090600@pobox.com> <1095186343.2008.29.camel@mulgrave> <4147AB5A.4060804@rtr.ca> <20040915024720.GA23694@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915024720.GA23694@havoc.gtf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 28 I would really like to work on consolidating the ATA code in libata, though. As the name implies, it's a library -- don't feel that your driver must conform to the libata driver API in order to make use of all its functions. And feel free to add to it. Yes, there are definite code sharing possibilities there to be explored. Right now, my first priority is to get support for this hardware into the kernel. This same driver source will also be backported to mid-2.4.xx series, both Redhat and generic. After that, we can modify some interfaces to reduce the small overlaps that may present. Next revision is due out later today. It may still have a few warts to work out, but I think it is looking much better than before. Better to have a decent hardware driver within the tree, than an unknown vendor-only binary driver outside the tree. Cheers -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/