From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750950AbWCUQky (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750983AbWCUQkx (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:53 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:11409 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbWCUQkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:51 -0500 Message-ID: <44202C91.30601@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:49 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates References: <20060320111658.GA16172@havoc.gtf.org> <1142872556.21455.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <441F52F7.8030309@garzik.org> <1142936420.21455.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1142936420.21455.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-2.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2006-03-20 at 20:12 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>In my [no doubt warped] brain, I equate the SFF-8038 interface to "PCI >>IDE BMDMA", and from there, view most hardware as a subset of PCI IDE >>BMDMA. It might not do DMA, might not be PCI, might not do irqs, but >>most PATA hardware seems able to be driven by a "bmdma driver". Thus, >>the name :) > > > Most of that file is ST-506 type register interfaces, only a tiny bit is > SFF PCI IDE with DMA. > > Expect some patches soon. I've got my tree merged against the git tree > now, just needs some testing. To be specific, are the patches against libata-dev.git 'upstream' branch? (most should apply to Linus-vanilla branch, so regardless of the definition of "the git tree" it should be OK) Jeff