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    Alan Cox wrote:
    > Ar Gwe, 2006-07-07 am 13:39 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
    >> The user doesn't know about soldered bridge chips. The user knows if he
    >> is plugging a PATA or SATA cable into his controller.
    >
    > In which case the pata_ prefix isnt much use because people soldered
    > bridge chips onto just about everything in the first SATA rush, before
    > they all switched to chips that actually did SATA.

    An easy look at pata_*.c seemed to indicate that at least 20 would
    almost certainly remain pata_*.c, maybe even as many as 30.

    The circumstances you cite happened, yes, but I think you exaggerate the
    renaming. Several soldered bridge solutions are already supported by
    libata.

    Several do need to be renamed to ata_*.c, though.

    Jeff



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