Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:01:40 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 09:06, Tupshin Harper wrote: > Alan...since you disagreed with the earlier characterization of what it > would take to get into the mainline kernels, could you let us know what > it would take in your opinion? FWIW, I'm happily using it with a -ac kernel.
It needs some small changes in the base ide-disk code to handle drives having only a logical geometry (legal but Linux can't cope). Most if not all the other hooks are there to an extent the driver for the it821x can work without core code changes. It might be cleaner with core changes but it's better that the it821x code handles the weirdness of the hardware.
Longer term it (and probably every other IDE PATA driver) should be moved to the Jeff Garzik SATA layer. That's also Bart's position I believe ?
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