From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Arthur Cosma <tux_fan@yahoo.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Any news on PATA support for Promise PDC 20375?
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:34:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4342AF23.6000907@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051004160913.42155.qmail@web30513.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Arthur Cosma wrote:
> Please CC me only any reply to this message, as I am not a mailing list
> subscriber.
>
> This was my last resort, as all searches on the subject topic yield
> messages from 2004, many of which mention Jeff Garzik's name.
>
> After trying 2.6.13.2, I still don't get the PATA drives recognized, so I
> believe it's still not there yet.
>
> The question is, will it ever be, or has it been dropped?
I'm attaching the patch included in Gentoo's 2.6.13 kernels, which originally
came from Jeff's repo.
I asked Jeff about this patch previously, and his comment was:
> However, this patch in particular is safe and OK -- it just needs cleaning
> up before including in 2.6.13, and I haven't figured out how to clean it up
> yet. The port_flags[] array this patch adds is a hack.
>
> I need to separate the port settings from the host settings, which would be
> the proper fix.
So I guess the answer is just wait a while longer (and patch manually for now) :)
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 16:09 Any news on PATA support for Promise PDC 20375? Arthur Cosma
2005-10-04 16:34 ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2005-10-07 13:22 ` Arthur Cosma
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