Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:49:55 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Parallel ATA with libata status with the patches I'm working on |
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My general take on things:
* Supporting PATA has always been a long term libata goal (and people have known this for years).
* I try to stay as far as possible away from the fight between Alan and Bart. As the changelog shows, I've merged libata patches from both.
* Alan's patches do tend to come straight to me, and it would be nice if he CC'd them to a list (linux-ide).
* Nonetheless, they get exposure in -mm (via libata-dev.git) for a while, before going upstream.
* The non-core changes, i.e. Alan and Albert's PATA drivers, aren't going upstream for a while, and will be instead living in -mm (via my "pata-drivers" libata-dev.git branch) Too much breakage and user confusion will occur if they are pushed {today|soon}.
* CONFIG_IDE=n is still largely for developers and brave souls only (or for lucky owners of the newest boxes, which simply don't have PATA on them at all).
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