Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:52:38 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) |
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Hello.
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>>>driver to using platform-device. I got a reply, that it's not worth it now >>>that IDE is slowly becoming obsolete, and the pata_platform serves the >>>perpose perfectly well. I found this argument reasonable, I had the same >>>doubt, just wanted to double-check. So, why do we now need a new legacy >>>(a/drivers/ide/legacy/ide_platform.c) driver when a "modern" driver >>>exists?
>>We don't *need* it but some people still want to use old IDE and the >>author was willing to make it neatly compatible so that anything that >>works with the pata_platform should be able to use the ide_platform >>driver and vice versa. For the shorter term that can only be a good thing >>- arch code doesn't need to care about which driver is used, end users >>can pick and it doesn't end up adding new ties between code and old IDE.
> Ok, thanks for the explanation Alan. So, there's no technical argument, > just "being nice to the users", and add a new driver, which we know we'll > have to remove soon, thus having to persuade its users, who by that time
Define "soon". :-)
> will get used to it and will not want to invest money into switching to > another one...
Invest into what if the drivers are functionally identical?
> Thanks > Guennadi
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