Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

[Scott Long]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> My main concern with the new stuff is that it requires CAM and that's
> reasonably big compared to the standalone ATA code.
> 

From a code execution standpoint?  No, it's not.

> It'd be nice if we could slim down the CAM stack a bit first; it makes
> embedding it on the smaller devices really freaking painful.
> 

From a code segment size standpoint, there's definitely some stuff that should be
made modular and optional.

Scott