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SubjectRe: 2.6.17-mm6
Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-07-07 am 13:14 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
>> Most older controllers always fall into pata_, most newer into sata_,
>> and an odd few ata_
>>
>> Its a bug if you don't help maintain these assumptions :)
>
> It would be very hard to do so. Almost anything can and (alas) did have
> sata bridges nailed to it early on. Almost every later highpoint,
> promise and ati chip has been found with SATA bridges attached.
>
> I've tried to follow the convention on the basis of "not usually found
> nailed to a SATA bridge chip". If we want to be strict then most of
> pata_ is ata_ and the prefix really isn't useful.

If there is a SATA receptable -- for plugging in SATA cables --
hardwired onto the controller, it should not be called pata_

Its about what the _user_ knows, and sees.

The user doesn't know about soldered bridge chips. The user knows if he
is plugging a PATA or SATA cable into his controller.


> And what about IDE/SATA convertor boards ?

Covered, in the "for the purposes of" sentence.

Jeff


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