From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_it821x: Driver updates and reworking Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:58:54 +0200 Message-ID: <200807281658.54380.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20080724171606.1c2a677c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.186]:37265 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756858AbYG1PBr (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:01:47 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so3432682fkq.5 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:01:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080724171606.1c2a677c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 24 July 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > - Add support for the RDC 1010 variant > - Rework the core library to have a read_id method. This allows the hacky > bits of it821x to go and prepares us for pata_hd > - Switch from WARN to BUG in ata_id_string as it will reboot if you get > it wrong so WARN won't be seen > - Allow the issue of command 0xFC on the 821x. This is needed to query > rebuild status. > - Tidy up printk formatting > - Do more ident rewriting on RAID volumes to handle firmware provided > ident data which is rather wonky > - Report the firmware revision and device layout in RAID mode > - Don't try and disable raid on the 8211 or RDC - they don't have the > relevant bits > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Looks interesting, do you plan on porting it to ide/pci/it821x later? PS a bit of shame that this is not splitted on patches with smaller granularity (would make review/merging work far more effective) Thanks, Bart