From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] libata: improve ata_bus_probe failure handling, take 2 Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:20:02 -0400 Message-ID: <44314B32.1070004@pobox.com> References: <11439680863256-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com> <442FE142.7030304@pobox.com> <4430ECEF.30307@tw.ibm.com> <4430FB37.6040600@pobox.com> <87f94c370604030737y7ef96ed8g5d887ff768845956@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:28079 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751766AbWDCQUN (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:20:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87f94c370604030737y7ef96ed8g5d887ff768845956@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: albertl@mail.com, Tejun Heo , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 4/3/06, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> For the record, I do consider irq-pio upstream ready. It still needs to >> wait for Tejun's EH work to make it upstream, to give upstream people >> the test sets of >> >> - prep EH (2.6.17-rc1) >> - EH >> - NCQ >> - irq-pio >> >> Since each of these sets is staged, upstream testers will be able to say >> "2.6.17-rc1 works, but 2.6.18-git1 doesn't", which gives us a lot of >> good info. >> >> Jeff > > So for those of us anxiously waiting for the above great enhancements > it looks like it will be 5 months or so before it is in a released > vanilla kernel? ie. assuming 2 1/2 months per kernel release. Heavens no :) The stages above just need to be separated out by a few 2.6.X-gitX or 2.6.X-rcX releases. Jeff