Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756287AbZFVRDL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754870AbZFVRCy (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:02:54 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59966 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753580AbZFVRCx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:02:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4A3FB956.6060401@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:03:18 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Freemyer CC: David Miller , bzolnier@gmail.com, elendil@planet.nl, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New IDE maintainer (was Re: cmd64x: irq 14: nobody cared - system is dreadfully slow) References: <20090621.141950.160759111.davem@davemloft.net> <200906220034.22430.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090621.155756.100422570.davem@davemloft.net> <20090621.161343.181101055.davem@davemloft.net> <87f94c370906212039sa23d49fh305d8f0d58a48d1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87f94c370906212039sa23d49fh305d8f0d58a48d1f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1207 Lines: 32 Greg Freemyer wrote: >> I'm going to treat IDE as pure legacy, rather than as competition >> with the PATA drivers which is what people whould be moving over to. > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > What impact does that on Linux and its growing popularity in arm > platforms? I had assumed that most arm platforms were long term users > of drivers/ide, but I have no facts to back that up. libata already has several ARM drivers and does work on that platform in general. A great many platforms are handled by the generic pata_platform driver. There are a handful of IDE drivers not yet ported over to libata, all !x86 drivers; maybe there's an odd ARM platform or two in there, I haven't checked recently. If there's a problem or missing functionality, just speak up... Jeff -- 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/