Re: 2.6.17-mm6

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

An easy look at pata_*.c seemed to indicate that at least 20 would 
almost certainly remain pata_*.c, maybe even as many as 30.

The circumstances you cite happened, yes, but I think you exaggerate the 
renaming.  Several soldered bridge solutions are already supported by 
libata.

Several do need to be renamed to ata_*.c, though.

	Jeff



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