Re: IDE-TNG what to do ?

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 17:04, John Jones wrote:
> (yeah I know PCIX and vax's are still around in terms of legacy machine 
> people hang onto but I am sticking my head in the sand and 
> singing...SCSI or SAS )
> 
> really I am suggesting that you have IDE-TNG just for a few controllers 
> and drives
> (real world testing is easier)
> 
> and the way to restrict the number is to say Serial ATA only
> 
> bad or (partly)good ?

I don't think it is where the complexity is coming from. The driver
specific pieces for a relatively clean and sane UDMA PCI device are
currently at about 500 lines of code including comments and blanks.