From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264942AbTK3QqF (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:46:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264943AbTK3QqF (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:46:05 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:25265 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264942AbTK3QqB (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:46:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCA1EBA.1070906@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:45:46 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hahn CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Hahn wrote: >>>So folks, try libata, as well. >> >>Thanks :) > > > what do you think the chances are of libata becoming the primary ata > interface for 2.4 and 2.6? there have always been major changes even > to stable releases in the past, at least when the change seems to be a > big improvement. "primary ata interface" is a bit tough to define. Serial ATA will become _the_ ATA interface on motherboards of the future. From a software perspective, it really only matters what hardware driver you load... > incidentally, can you give me any clues to description/discussion you > might have engaged in about libata? I saw your prog-ref pdf, but it > doesn't really describe the motivation, issues of going scsi, etc. > (I looked at lkml and google, but couldn't filter well enough...) Mostly just design in my head, plus a bit of discussion at the Kernel Summit earlier this year. > feel free to reply to lkml. libata design/status/future is clearly of > general interest... I'm putting together a "Serial ATA status report", to be posted to lkml and linux-scsi, which should hopefully cover all that. Your email kicks me into action again, for that report, for which I should thank you :) Jeff