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>> do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had |
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>> libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. |
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>> Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! |
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>> Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers |
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>> don't replace the old ones, at present time. But are they planned to? Or |
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>> do they just exist "for the fun of it" ? |
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> yes, they will replace the old drivers at some point in the future. |
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> And they don't exist just for the fun of it. ide is in a horrible state for |
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> many, many years. And every attempt to 'fix' it, went very wrong. libpata is |
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> the latest attempt to clean up the mess. What do we get? Hopefully better |
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> drivers, better error handling, better powermanagment support. |
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I see! very nice ... |
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But with the new drivers, you can't enable/disable DMA (yet) etc. |
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Well, but they work nice, as far as i can tell. |
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