Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755489AbXFVI6n (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:58:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752539AbXFVI6g (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:58:36 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:51771 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbXFVI6e (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:58:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:02:16 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Adrian Bunk Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] schedule BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA for removal Message-ID: <20070622100216.45abf2b3@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070621235211.GH23017@stusta.de> References: <20070621235211.GH23017@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1494 Lines: 39 On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:52:11 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > Users should use the libata based drivers for SATA drives. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk > > --- > --- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.old 2007-06-21 23:41:03.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-06-21 23:42:03.000000000 +0200 > @@ -347,3 +347,10 @@ > Who: Jean Delvare > > --------------------------- > + > +What: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA > +When: December 2007 > +Why: users should use the libata based drivers for SATA > +Who: Adrian Bunk > + > +--------------------------- NAK this for now For the standard SATA controllers it is probably true now and will definitely be true by December 2007 but there is lots of stuff out there which uses SATA/PATA bridges on older PATA controllers such as the VIA and HPT controllers. While support for them varies between rock solid (VIA) and passable (HPT), I don't think its yet time to bump those people towards libata forcibly at all. About the only thing this would meaningfully obsolete would be ide/pci/siimage.c for SI3112 and some PCI identifiers from ide/pci/piix.c. - 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/