On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:Also its dangerous to assume "pata_*" is a PATA driver, it may be SATA
with a bridge chip, and in some cases like the ATI this is quite common.
Incorrect; what you describe is the core assumption underlying the "ata_", "pata_", and "sata_" prefixes.
If the user can attached PATA and SATA devices to a controller, its prefix is ata_
So sata_promise will change to ata_promise at some point?