Re: [PATCH 1/4] SATA ACPI build (applies to 2.6.16-git9)

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > On Llu, 2006-01-16 at 13:31 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 13 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> > > > >
> > > > > Add ata_acpi in Makefile and Kconfig.
> > > > > Add ACPI obj_handle.
> > > > > Add ata_acpi.c to libata kernel-doc template file.
> > > >
> > > > Randy,
> > > >
> > > > Any chance you can add PATA support as well for this?
> > >
> > > It should just work with pata devices using libata.
> >
> > ACPI namespace is different for PATA and SATA devices.
> > Once the device is found in the namespace, it may be very
> > similar (or it may not, I dunno yet).
>
> The naming seems different (eg IDEC -> PRID on SATA, IDE0 -> MSTR on
> PATA).

The names are just placeholders.  They can't be used by any
source code.  They could just as well be ASDF and QWER.

-- 
~Randy
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