From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932455AbVJDQes (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:34:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932523AbVJDQes (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:34:48 -0400 Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:50102 "EHLO mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932455AbVJDQer (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:34:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4342AF23.6000907@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:34:43 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050820) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arthur Cosma CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Any news on PATA support for Promise PDC 20375? References: <20051004160913.42155.qmail@web30513.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051004160913.42155.qmail@web30513.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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