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On Sunday 12 November 2006 00:44, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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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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