Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946851AbWKAMTe (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:19:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946850AbWKAMTe (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:19:34 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:1720 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946843AbWKAMTd (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:19:33 -0500 Subject: Re: AHCI should try to claim all AHCI controllers From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , Conke Hu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <45482BA7.6070904@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:23:03 +0000 Message-Id: <1162383783.11965.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 16 Ar Maw, 2006-10-31 am 21:22 -0800, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds: > (We had the same issue with "PCI IDE controller". Some PCI IDE controllers > are clearly exactly that from a programming interface standpoint, but > because they support RAID in hardware, they claim to be RAID controllers, > since that is more "glamorous". Gaah ;^). Actually its far uglier than that. With one exception they don't support hardware raid mode, they use the RAID class tag to stop other OS drivers grabbing the interface or seeing it directly as un-raided software raid. Alan - 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/