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Hi All.

Ignited by recent discussions on -arch about shrinking the binary =20
footprint for small systems I searched around in my forest of devel =20
tree's and found a branch where I've split up ATA's chipset code into =20=

vendor specific modules. This is usefull in many ways, so I'm planning =20=

on committing this soonish, but lets have a round of testing first:

It can be found on http://deepcore.dk/pub/ATA as two files, ata-=20
modules-diff that contains a diff for /sys/conf/files and ata-=20
modules.tgz that is a replacement for /sys/dev/ata.
This turns the chipset parts into a module for each vendor, and they =20
are all compiled in as is, however they can be left out on a pr vendor =20=

basis (there are a few interdependencies though).
I havn't written all the /sys/modules/ata/*/Makefiles that it would =20
take to make it into loadable modules, but thats trivial todo.

Let me know how this works out!

-S=F8ren