From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Merging ATA passthru Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:18 -0400 Message-ID: <43593E0A.4070801@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:3511 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965102AbVJUTOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:14:23 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Linux Kernel Folks, Taking Mark Lord's (and others) criticism to heart, I'm going to merge the ATA passthru work upstream, once 2.6.14 is released. Since there are still some reported problems that I haven't had time to track down, I'm going to -- like ATAPI -- introduce a module option that enables passthru. It will default to off. Other features that follow a similar pattern -- 98% there but needs a few final tweaks -- will be treated in the same way. This gets lesser-used features upstream where they can get the most testing, while defaulting them to off ensures that we won't perturb the known-working code. This also will help me, in that I won't have to maintain a bunch of parallel codebases. Jeff