Re: IDE class driver with SATA controllers

[Julien Oster]

Quoting Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>:

Hello Jeff,

> With regards to libata being the default, making that an _option_ is 
> feasible, but we will probably default to the IDE driver for quite some 
> time.  There are issues of /dev/hda versus /dev/sda, keeping existing 
> user setups working, etc.

once there is reasonable support to indeed use libata as default,
we could just wrap a pass through IDE driver around, which allocates the
major numbers for /dev/hd* and just feeds everything to libata. Or are the
semantics too different?

Regards,
Julien


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