On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:44  AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> - should we have separate drivers for SATA ?
>   Right now, we have sata in compat mode only, so it really doesn't 
> take much
>   space and doesn't qualify for separate drivers. Also, there is a 
> promise
>   device which has both SATA and parallel ATA.
> My opinion on this is that for now we can keep SATA and parallel ATA 
> in the
> same drivers. we can split them later if needed.

I don't think SATA should be split out.  Even the ones that use direct 
port access (the Intel part has such a mode) really boil down to "each 
port is like an independent controller with one master-only channel").  
The only difference that's really a hassle is that the offsets of some 
of the register changed, but I don't think that warrants a totally 
separate driver.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>