linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata

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Message-Id: <201002011031.19741.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:31:19 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata

On Monday 01 February 2010 08:47:26 am David Miller wrote:

> However what I don't like is how this is implemented.  We shouldn't
> pretend the data structures are the same by using macros in some
> header file, we should truly abstract out the data types properly such
> that these drivers in fact use the same datastructures.

The hardest part is done and the idea is proved so this indeed would be
a natural next step..

> For the price of a few series of data structure morphs, we eliminate
> the tester-base issue of legacy IDE.  There's one driver for both
> ATA and legacy IDE, the stuff in front is just a presentation and
> probing layer, nothing more.

Hmm.. sounds exactly like the direction in which IDE has been going for
the last few years.. :)

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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