Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:38:05 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jung-Ik (John) Lee" <jilee@google.com>,
       Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
       Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>,
       Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>,
       Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Add pata_atp867x driver for Artop/Acard ATP867X
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> Ideally you would use ATA_CBL_PATA_UNK / ata_cable_unknown, but it seems 
> that ATA_CBL_PATA_UNK has grown rather useless in the current kernel.
> 
> We should probably (a) update libata-core/libata-sff to do something 
> intelligent with ATA_CBL_PATA_UNK,

It does - it says "Use drive side detect the controller hasn't got a
clue".

Alan
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