From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Happy New Year, libata hackers Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:50:47 -0500 Message-ID: <43BAB977.3010203@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]:2193 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932471AbWACRuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:50:50 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Linux Kernel Well, another year has passed, and somehow the duct tape that keeps our hard drives together has remained intact. After a nice and refreshing holiday, I have a bunch of patches pending, that will probably take a week or two to sort through. For 2.6.16, my main goals are getting irq-pio upstream and supporting iomap -- which will kill all those annoying warnings finally. And probably some EH work from Tejun will go in too. The suspend/resume stuff is shaping up nicely, and device hotplug work suddenly reappeared. Fun for all. Port multiplier and NCQ (queueing) support are the two other big to-do items on the list. I updated the hardware status report at http://linux.yyz.us/sata/ and will update the software status report in a week or two. Everybody wants to play in the same sandbox, so please be patient as we sort it all out. Cheers and happy new year, Jeff