Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:29:13 -0800 (PST) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:27:48 +0000 >> If the drivers get truly shared between IDE and ATA, that >> presumption is entirely removed, the ATA testers will >> be hitting the same driver code that whatever remaining >> IDE users will be. > > Assuming the data structures matching does that is a bit like assuming > you can test one TCP stack using another one because they use the same > packet format.
I don't really think those two situations are the same.
And Bart's patch set show that things are pretty darn close already.
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