To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update
From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04102413156543b72e@mail.gmail.com> (Bartlomiej
 Zolnierkiewicz's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:15:26 +0200")
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:51:53 -0700
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>>>>> "BZ" == Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> writes:

BZ> All these data can be obtained from user-space, no need for
BZ> bloating sysfs.

Cool.

BZ> http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~bzolnier/atapci/

BZ> released > 2 years ago :)

BZ> works fine but probably needs some cut'n'paste updates

Now to get the distributions to pick it up.  I've checked gentoo and
debian (sid); neither has it.

BZ> Most of these /proc files were buggy / inaccurate and keeping them
BZ> had real maintenance cost (hpt366 bug, triflex bug etc.) with
BZ> absolutely no added gain in debugging problems (raw PCI config
BZ> gives much more info).

I always went their first for a quick overview, but since your
atapci(8) provides all of that -- and more, of course -- lspci(8)-
style ubiquity for it is enough. :)

-JimC


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