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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:36:57 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE?
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Hi

>  - phase 2: IDE-TNG. Leave the current IDE code unchanged, and plan to 
>    obsolete it. It's the "stable IDE", and by virtue of being stable, 
>    nobody will mind work on new drivers that (by definition) cannot screw 
>    up unless you use them.
> 
>    IDE-TNG would:
>     - be controller-specific (ie one driver for one controller family)
>     - be able to say "screw it" for old or broken setups (which are left 
>       fot the old IDE code)
>     - in particular, it would only bother with PCI (or better) 
>       controllers, and with UDMA-only setups.

Would it be possible to use martin's IDE as starting point for IDE-TNG? Awfull
lot of cleanups went to that code...
									Pavel
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