Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:56:29 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd |
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:07:05PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 02:54:43PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Bart, Alan, and I have been looking at this. It uses the ancient CAM > > model, that we don't really want to merge directly in the kernel. It's > > very close to the libata model, from the user perspective, so life is > > good. > > I was reading over your libata driver yesterday. Certainly a lot > cleaner than the cam stuff IMHO. Given the info made available > via the Promise driver, I expect that I could get an initial > libata host adaptor driver hacked together in short order. After > all, the Intel one is just 400 lines. So unless you (or anyone > else) have already started or would prefer to do the honors, > I'll try to hack something together this evening,
Shoot, that would be great ;-)
For the future, libata will need a tad bit more queueing than is currently supported. But there is enough support in libata right now to handle basic Promise support.
On a legal note, I would prefer that completely new drivers (i.e. no copied code from other sources) be licensing in the same way as libata.c. Maintainer's preference in the end, of course, but I would like to strongly encourage following libata.c's example ;-)
I have a TX2 board, too, so I can test your stuff as well.
Jeff
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