Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:10:25 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE |
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James Bottomley wrote: > Right at the moment, we have two separate subsystems for running IDE > type devices: driver/ide and drivers/ata. The claim I've seen is that > drivers/ata can do everything drivers/ide can do plus it does sata. I > also note that no major distribution seems to enable anything in > drivers/ide anymore, so given this is it time to deprecate drivers/ide? > > A counter argument to the above is that not all drivers (particularly > the older ones where hw is scarce) are converted to drivers/ata, so > drivers/ide seems to be needed for some legacy systems (in which case it > can be deprecated but not removed). I've also noted that some embedded > distributions seem to be using drivers/ide, but I'm not really sure > whether this is inertia or some overriding need. > > The proposal is to discuss the future of these two subsystems and arrive > at a consensus what's happening to each going forwards.
I'm not in any rush to change the status quo as I see it: don't remove drivers/ide but encourage new drivers to be under libata.
I am a bit disappointed at all the drivers/ide churn. I had hoped it would sit around and be a stable alternative, a fallback to libata.
Jeff
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