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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Just to echo some comments I said in private, this driver is _not_
> a replacement for drivers/ide.  This is not, and has never been,
> the intention.  In fact, I need drivers/ide's continued existence,
> so that I may have fewer boundaries on future development.

Just out of interest, is there any _point_ to this driver? I can
appreciate the approach, but I'd like to know if it does anything (at all)
better than the native IDE driver? Faster? Anything?

		Linus