Re: 2.4.x libata resync

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat Sep 16 2006 - 02:20:23 EST


Tom Mortensen wrote:
I was wondering if there are any plans for another resync of the latest
2.6.x libata changes back into the 2.4.x kernel?

No plans from me, anyway.

The 2.6.x SCSI API is quite different from the 2.4 API. Dropping 2.4 support removed a lot of limitations on the codebase, and allowed accelerated development.

That shouldn't stop any sufficiently motivated 3rd party, though...

Jeff


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