Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:57:00 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
       ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE
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On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Anyway, in my experience, libata supports CF on embedded controllers
> > pretty well. So maybe we should start marking IDE drivers deprecated
> > to encourage people to try libata instead and report breakage if any.
> 
> Well, I know of at least one case of PC hardware in which an old IDE driver
> basically works while the libata/pata poeple have no idea why their driver
> doesn't:
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9157

Interesting. I have a board with such a SIS controller somewhere here.
I'd have to shuffle the dust out of it and see if it still works, maybe
I can help on this one.

Regards,
Willy

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