Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 12 November 2006 00:44, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had > libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. > Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! > > Why are they doing it? Does this m

[gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old ones,