From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:00:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FCBB9F3.6050000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ad6ccixk.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv>
Greg Stark wrote:
> Is there any documentation about what libata is and what it does differently
> from the stock kernel? Why is it being developed separately instead of as a
Nothing "different" from the stock kernel; this is how all drivers are
developed. libata is the Serial ATA driver for Linux. Some chipsets --
ICH5 and VIA SATA notably -- look so much like PATA that it's easy to
let the existing drivers/ide driver use them. You won't get SATA
hotplug or similar SATA-only features, but as long as you can access
your SATA hard drive, who cares? :)
libata is in the "stock" 2.6 kernel, FWIW, too.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-01 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-28 18:27 linux-2.4.23 released Marcelo Tosatti
2003-11-28 19:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-11-28 22:55 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-11-29 22:26 ` libata in 2.4.24? Samuel Flory
2003-11-29 23:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 10:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 18:06 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 21:12 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-01 21:23 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 21:44 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-01 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-01 22:06 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 22:00 ` Erik Steffl
2003-12-02 5:36 ` Greg Stark
[not found] ` <20031202055336.GO1566@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com>
2003-12-02 5:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 16:31 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 17:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 18:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 18:46 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 18:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-04 8:18 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-02 18:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 18:51 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 20:10 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 20:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 20:34 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 22:34 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 23:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 23:18 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 23:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-03 0:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03 0:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-07 5:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-01 21:36 ` Justin Cormack
2003-12-01 13:41 Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-01 14:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 19:59 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-02 22:05 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 22:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03 0:34 Xose Vazquez Perez
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