Re: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9)

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > On Llu, 2006-01-16 at 13:31 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 13 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > > From: Randy Dunlap <randy_d_dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Add ata_acpi in Makefile and Kconfig.
> > > > Add ACPI obj_handle.
> > > > Add ata_acpi.c to libata kernel-doc template file.
> > >
> > > Randy,
> > >
> > > Any chance you can add PATA support as well for this?
> >
> > It should just work with pata devices using libata.
> 
> ACPI namespace is different for PATA and SATA devices.
> Once the device is found in the namespace, it may be very
> similar (or it may not, I dunno yet).

The naming seems different (eg IDEC -> PRID on SATA, IDE0 -> MSTR on
PATA).

-- 
Jens Axboe

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