Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932157AbWBGBx6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:53:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932186AbWBGBx6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:53:58 -0500 Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk ([193.201.200.170]:52365 "EHLO chiark.greenend.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932157AbWBGBx5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:53:57 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Cc: safemode@comcast.net, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, harald.dunkel@t-online.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, Ed Sweetman Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 pata driver confusion + tsc sync issues In-Reply-To: <20060206173520.43412664.akpm@osdl.org> References: <43E3D103.70505@comcast.net> <43E7A4C0.4020209@t-online.de> <1139255800.10437.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43E805D4.5010602@comcast.net> <43E7F73E.2070004@comcast.net> <43E7F73E.2070004@comcast.net> <20060206173520.43412664.akpm@osdl.org> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 01:53:54 +0000 Message-Id: From: Matthew Garrett Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton wrote: > That's bad. Given that libata goes through the scsi layer at the moment, shifting from the traditional PATA drivers to the libata ones is going to result in a shift from hdfoo to sdbar. We're not really looking forward to this from the distribution point of view, though I think the same thing happened in the past when shifting from the ancient SATA drivers to the libata ones. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org - 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/