Re: [git patches] libata updates

[Alan Cox]

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.

Alan

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