Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE-TNG what to do ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 20 Aug 2002 17:47:10 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 17:04, John Jones wrote: > (yeah I know PCIX and vax's are still around in terms of legacy machine > people hang onto but I am sticking my head in the sand and > singing...SCSI or SAS ) > > really I am suggesting that you have IDE-TNG just for a few controllers > and drives > (real world testing is easier) > > and the way to restrict the number is to say Serial ATA only > > bad or (partly)good ?
I don't think it is where the complexity is coming from. The driver specific pieces for a relatively clean and sane UDMA PCI device are currently at about 500 lines of code including comments and blanks.
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