From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: remove experimental tag on PATA drivers Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:24 +0100 Message-ID: <200911131715.24377.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <4AFCC0D4.9020708@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:12678 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756144AbZKMQQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:16:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4AFCC0D4.9020708@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-kernel , ide , Jeff Garzik On Friday 13 November 2009 03:13:40 Robert Hancock wrote: > Remove the experimental tag on Parallel ATA drivers. Though some of the > individual PATA drivers are still marked as experimental, as a group they can > hardly be considered to be, given they've been used in various distros for some > time. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock Fine but please update status of following host drivers that were marked as "stable" prematurely by commit e3389cb first: PATA_PDC_OLD: needs to be marked as EXPERIMENTAL (or just BROKEN) - known reliability problems with UDMA PATA_ALI: EXPERIMENTAL - ATAPI DMA is still broken PATA_CMD64X: EXPERIMENTAL - potential data corruption issues remains unfixed for CMD64[3,6] PATA_SIS: EXPERIMENTAL - missing MWDMA support on newer controllers They are all old & known problems and not present in [ "old", "deprecated", "legacy" ] counterparts. > diff --git a/drivers/ata/Kconfig b/drivers/ata/Kconfig > index f2df6e2..33133c6 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/ata/Kconfig > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ > # > > menuconfig ATA > - tristate "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" > + tristate "Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers" > depends on HAS_IOMEM > depends on BLOCK > depends on !(M32R || M68K) || BROKEN -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz