On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:38:39 Jeff Garzik wrote:On 11/18/2009 02:56 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:On Wednesday 18 November 2009 20:07:07 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:On Wednesday 18 November 2009 19:41:25 Alan Cox wrote:Maybe they are 'stable' but when it comes to features they are behind hpt366
(i.e. they lack PCI PM), which is also much cleaner than your drivers, easier
to understand and much smaller..
37x and 3xn lack PCI PM. Added to the TODO list.
The smaller size is a bit questionable given its mostly comments, and
three drivers versus one.
I wonder what you find 'questionable' in the numbers given..
BTW we can immediately reclaim 300 LOC by simply merging drivers back..
Merging drivers is a big pain for distributions and end users, even with
the new module_alias facility.
Could please explain in more detail 'a big pain' part?
Absent stronger justification, libata remains with separate drivers,
even if that means some code duplication.
I can always hold my own tree with such changes if needed.