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DateTue, 30 Jan 2007 17:42:55 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: Free Linux Driver Development!
Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jeff <at> garzik.org> writes:
> 
>>> And I seem to recall there's more SATA chipset documentation than Jeff
>>> Garzik has time to implement support for.
>> I seriously doubt you can come up with even a single concrete example here.
>>
>> Regardless, libata has 55+ drivers and counting, all for the price of 
>> documentation and hardware.  Another quite strong counter example.
>>
> On another side, some PATA drivers are incomplete or missing.

Which ones are incomplete?

I know a few non-x86 drivers are missing.


> When we switch to PATA and drop old ide stack, what will happen ?
> Will all driver be ported and full-feature, or some will be obsoleted ?

All drivers for which we can find users will be ported.  If any features 
disappear that's a bug.

	Jeff



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