Re: [PATCHSET] libata: improve ata_bus_probe failure handling, take 2

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 4/3/06, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>> On 4/3/06, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 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
> 
> I'm confused.  You just poseted:
> 
>> Due to the merge window closing, the three pending patchsets will be in
>> 2.6.18.
> 
> That sure sounds like 5 months before it is in a released vanilla
> kernel.  ie. it has been taking about 10 weeks per kernel release. 
> 2.6.17 is likely to take another 8 weeks.  Then 10 weeks for 2.6.18 to
> come out.

Hopefully the releases won't take that long :)

	Jeff