Alan Cox wrote:
Ar Gwe, 2006-07-07 am 13:14 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
Most older controllers always fall into pata_, most newer into sata_,
and an odd few ata_
Its a bug if you don't help maintain these assumptions :)
It would be very hard to do so. Almost anything can and (alas) did have
sata bridges nailed to it early on. Almost every later highpoint,
promise and ati chip has been found with SATA bridges attached.
I've tried to follow the convention on the basis of "not usually found
nailed to a SATA bridge chip". If we want to be strict then most of
pata_ is ata_ and the prefix really isn't useful.
If there is a SATA receptable -- for plugging in SATA cables --
hardwired onto the controller, it should not be called pata_
Its about what the _user_ knows, and sees.
The user doesn't know about soldered bridge chips. The user knows if he
is plugging a PATA or SATA cable into his controller.
And what about IDE/SATA convertor boards ?
Covered, in the "for the purposes of" sentence.
Jeff
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