Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753540Ab0BALRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:17:13 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38029 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751648Ab0BALRM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:17:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:17:25 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100201.031725.144446744.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: jeff@garzik.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100201110723.54870f7f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20100129232540.41f6c4f6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100131.234726.124893364.davem@davemloft.net> <20100201110723.54870f7f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 14 From: Alan Cox Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:07:23 +0000 > I'm amazed that you'd suggest trashing the current ATA stack to make the > maintenance of the old ones easier - which aren't supposed to be in flux > in the first place. I'm not, I'm saying leave the ATA stack as it is, but make the IDE legacy layer such that PATA drivers can compile into it. -- 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/