linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: add generic ATA/ATAPI disk driver

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Message-ID: <20080910112044.GB10263@gollum.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:20:44 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: add generic ATA/ATAPI disk driver

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:14:24AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> [ Borislav, this is the 'futuristic' stuff that we were talking about. :) ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch series adds a generic ATA/ATAPI disk driver (ide-gd) replacing
> ide-disk and ide-floppy drivers.  It is achieved by moving the common code
> to ide-gd.c, adding struct ide_disk_ops (which is used to abstract protocol
> specific details) and updating ide-{disk,floppy}.c accordingly.
> 
> The main goal is to make the code more maintainable / easier to extend later.
> As an immediate result we get driver specific debugging support for ATA disks
> and ability for driver specific Power Management for ATAPI devices.  Otherwise
> it is really an initial merge (which means that in the future the code can be
> further unified, struct ide_disk_ops can be made more fine-grained etc.).

Looks cool, ACK with some comments/questions in separate mail. Will test on my
Iomega ZIP drive when I get back.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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