From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:07:23 +0000
> I'm amazed that you'd suggest trashing the current ATA stack to make the > maintenance of the old ones easier - which aren't supposed to be in flux > in the first place.
I'm not, I'm saying leave the ATA stack as it is, but make the IDE legacy layer such that PATA drivers can compile into it.