From: Alan Cox <redacted>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:07:23 +0000

I'm amazed that you'd suggest trashing the current ATA stack to make the
maintenance of the old ones easier - which aren't supposed to be in flux
in the first place.

I'm not, I'm saying leave the ATA stack as it is, but make the IDE
legacy layer such that PATA drivers can compile into it.