Re: 2.6.17-mm6
From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jul 07 2006 - 15:44:42 EST
Ar Gwe, 2006-07-07 am 13:39 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
> The user doesn't know about soldered bridge chips. The user knows if he
> is plugging a PATA or SATA cable into his controller.
In which case the pata_ prefix isnt much use because people soldered
bridge chips onto just about everything in the first SATA rush, before
they all switched to chips that actually did SATA.
Alan
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