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