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Jeff Garzik <jeff <at> garzik.org> writes:

> > And I seem to recall there's more SATA chipset documentation than Jeff
> > Garzik has time to implement support for.
> 
> I seriously doubt you can come up with even a single concrete example here.
> 
> Regardless, libata has 55+ drivers and counting, all for the price of 
> documentation and hardware.  Another quite strong counter example.
> 
On another side, some PATA drivers are incomplete or missing.

When we switch to PATA and drop old ide stack, what will happen ?
Will all driver be ported and full-feature, or some will be obsoleted ?


Matthieu

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