Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:16:08 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Jeff (rightly) thinks the plan should be discussed publically, so here > is the plan > > For 2.6.19 to move the libata drivers to drivers/ata > Add a subset of the new PATA drivers living in -mm to the base kernel > > Many of the new libata drivers are already more stable and functional > than the drivers/ide ones. .. > At this point in time it is premature to discuss or plan the point at > which the old IDE layer would go away. That discussion can start at the > point where everyone is happy that the new libata based layer is > providing better quality and coverage than the old one. Even then there > would be no need to hurry.
As creator of the ancient IDE subsystem, I agree --> it is time to get the next generation code upstream.
This will also allow time for things like "udev" to perhaps think about an option to someday provide /dev/hd* symlinks for PATA devices when libata is used instead of IDE (?). That might be a possible migration path in the far future.
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