Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:23:14 -0800 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: disabling libata |
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On 2/10/06, Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote: > Why would you want to do that? SATA are driven by libata and the disks > turn up as SCSI devices. There's no way around that (yet).
"Yet"? I haven't been following things closely enough, but I got the impression that the long-term plan was something like this:
1. Move all the IDE drivers over to libata (Alan Cox has a patch to do this, at least part of that patch is in -mm, and I'm already running this flawlessly on one of my systems -- it's not debugged yet, but none of the bugs happen to hit me). Yes, this means *all* ATA hard drives become /dev/sd*, not just SATA.
2. Reorganize the Kconfig menus so that ATA stuff is no longer a subsection of SCSI.
3. Rename /dev/sd* to /dev/disk*.
Of course, I could be mistaken (in which case, please feel free to correct me). -- -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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