Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 06:09:18 EST


On Mer, 2006-03-29 at 17:30 -0500, James Cloos wrote:
> My understanding is that with Alan's patch everything should be
> using major 8, and that CONFIG_IDE is no longer required, yes?

This is correct both if you are just using the existing SATA drivers or
if you are using the libata patch to drive older chips via libata.

You can mix and match but don't compile in two drivers for the same chip

Alan

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/