From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: possibility to merge via_pata fixes to .19 stable series? Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:12 -0500 Message-ID: <455F790C.2030509@garzik.org> References: <200611180759.34622.t.powa@gmx.de> <20061118002357.564dbb9d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:49598 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752385AbWKRVUW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061118002357.564dbb9d.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Tobias Powalowski , Alan Cox , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:59:27 +0100 > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >> the latest .19rc6 still didn't inlcude your 2 patches for via_pata patches >> from -mm kernel. >> They are at least needed for my pc to boot fine, so i guess others would be >> also happy if those were upstream applied, else i have to patch our final >> kernel then. > > If you check the full changelog > (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm2/broken-out/via-pata-controller-xfer-fixes.patch) > you'll see that Jeff had issues with the patch. > > I don't know if they're still concerns, nor if they're fatal concerns > either. But I've been sitting on that patch for nearly five months. This isn't driver-specific, so a similar change should be applied to the core. Jeff