From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: possibility to merge via_pata fixes to .19 stable series? Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:07:20 -0800 Message-ID: <20061118190720.4498d14e.akpm@osdl.org> References: <200611180759.34622.t.powa@gmx.de> <20061118002357.564dbb9d.akpm@osdl.org> <455F790C.2030509@garzik.org> <20061118224334.72e3685c@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:60113 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755694AbWKSDIC (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:08:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061118224334.72e3685c@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cc: Jeff Garzik , Tobias Powalowski , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , matthieu castet On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:43:34 +0000 Alan wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:20:12 -0500 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > 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. > > Agreed - it belongs in the core code. We see the same problem on multiple > controllers and its one of the big things that at the moment makes it > impossible to progress the PATA drivers further. A five month stall of a patch which makes the difference betweem "working" and "not working" sounds pretty serious. Is this something someone is working on? If not, is it something which Matthieu might have time to look into (please?)