Alan Cox wrote:
Ar Gwe, 2006-07-07 am 13:39 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik:
The user doesn't know about soldered bridge chips. The user knows if he
is plugging a PATA or SATA cable into his controller.
In which case the pata_ prefix isnt much use because people soldered
bridge chips onto just about everything in the first SATA rush, before
they all switched to chips that actually did SATA.
An easy look at pata_*.c seemed to indicate that at least 20 would
almost certainly remain pata_*.c, maybe even as many as 30.
The circumstances you cite happened, yes, but I think you exaggerate the
renaming. Several soldered bridge solutions are already supported by
libata.
Several do need to be renamed to ata_*.c, though.
Jeff
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