Re: [PATCH 00/68] ide2libata

[David Miller]

From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:27:48 +0000

>> If the drivers get truly shared between IDE and ATA, that
>> presumption is entirely removed, the ATA testers will
>> be hitting the same driver code that whatever remaining
>> IDE users will be.
> 
> Assuming the data structures matching does that is a bit like assuming
> you can test one TCP stack using another one because they use the same
> packet format.

I don't really think those two situations are the same.

And Bart's patch set show that things are pretty darn
close already.
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