Re: SATA port multiplier support in 2.6.21

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Jim Paris wrote:
> Learner Study wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I understand that SATA port multiplier support was added in 2.6.24.
>> I would like to use 2.6.21 and still use port multilplier. Can someone point
>> me to a patch I may use to do this? Any other ideas?
> 
> There were patches from Tejun (libata-tj-stable) for 2.6.18 and 2.6.22
> at one point, but I don't know where you'd find them anymore (the
> original site at http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable
> is down).  You may have some luck googling around for those.

Here are old patches.

  http://htj.dyndns.org/export/libata-tj-old/

> 2.6.21 is over two years old, so your best bet would be to upgrade to
> a more recent version, or, if you're stuck with some distribution
> kernel, talk to your vendor for support.

But, yeah, seriously, if at all possible, please use newer kernels.
There have been a lot of updates.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun