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"Погиб Andre Hedrick, разработчик ATA-подсистемы ядра Linux" Отправлено Michael Shigorin, 01-Авг-12 13:24
Сходите всё-таки по ссылке. Andre's taskfile concept was a central component of the current, rewritten-from-scratch Linux IDE driver "libata."  libata uses an "ata_taskfile" to communicate with all IDE drives, whether from a decade ago or built yesterday.  The taskfile concept modernized IDE software, by forcing the industry to move away from a slow, signals-originated register API to a modern, packetized RPC messaging API, similar to where SCSI storage had already been moving. I spent many hours on the phone with Andre, circa 2003, learning all there was to know about ATA storage, while writing libata.  Andre could be considered one of the grandfathers of libata, along with Alan Cox. I became friends with Andre during this time, and we talked a lot. [...]     Jeff Garzik     friend and libata author