Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755554Ab0BBX3F (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:29:05 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55340 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754469Ab0BBX3B (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:29:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:29:13 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100202.152913.168590626.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: <20100202232748.61e29030@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <4B68B0CF.1040907@garzik.org> <20100202.151900.211475917.davem@davemloft.net> <20100202232748.61e29030@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: 817 Lines: 21 From: Alan Cox Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:27:48 +0000 >> If the drivers get truly shared between IDE and ATA, that >> presumption is entirely removed, the ATA testers will >> be hitting the same driver code that whatever remaining >> IDE users will be. > > Assuming the data structures matching does that is a bit like assuming > you can test one TCP stack using another one because they use the same > packet format. I don't really think those two situations are the same. And Bart's patch set show that things are pretty darn close already. -- 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/