From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262827AbUKXULL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:11:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262830AbUKXULE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:11:04 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:31666 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262827AbUKXUI7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:08:59 -0500 Message-ID: <41A4EA47.2040304@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:08:39 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Tomita, Haruo" CC: Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.4.28 released References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tomita, Haruo wrote: > It may be unavoidable one that ata_piix does not work. > But, it is a problem that a DMA transfer does not enable by piix. > Don't you think so? This is unavoidable. Two drivers grabbing the same PCI I/O range is dangerous. Now that libata supports PATA, it would be easier to let libata support both SATA and PATA. Since that is a single driver, it makes DMA easy to support for both SATA/PATA. If libata does this, there needs to be a "ide=disable" or "legacy_ide=libata" switch added somewhere, for the cases (most distros) where IDE driver is built-in. Jeff