Subject: Re: [PATCH] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:55:08 +0300

Hello.

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

>>    I'm sorry, how those 2 drivers can be equivalent?! The pata_winbond driver 
>>is for VLB only, sl81c105 was for PCI only -- you certainly want to use 
>>pata_sl82c105 (indeed better version of sl82c105 driver).

> I was under the impression that with your fixes these drivers
> (sl82c105 and pata_sl82c105) are functionally equivalent.

    They're not yet equivalent. pata_sl82c105 supports all MWDMA modes, 
sl82c105 still supports only MWDMA2.

WBR, Sergei