From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [RFT] major libata update Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:52:48 +0900 Message-ID: <44690640.2000407@gmail.com> References: <20060515170006.GA29555@havoc.gtf.org> <20060515101831.0e38d131.akpm@osdl.org> <4468C33F.7070905@garzik.org> <4468D777.6080408@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.237]:55913 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714AbWEOWwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 18:52:53 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i32so992058wra for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:52:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4468D777.6080408@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Mark Lord wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Andrew Morton wrote: > .. >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5586 >> >> sata_mv still considered highly experimental, as noted in Kconfig. >> Bugs deferred to Mark Lord. > .. > I think that particular bug has gone away with my internal sata_mv.c > version. > I'm updating it for release on top of Jeff/Tejun's patch set, and will > likely > backport the bugfixes to 2.6.16.xx as well. Timeline, this week or next. The hotplug patches will change probing once more. So, I recommend staying with legacy ->phy_reset mechanism for the time being unless you are using ->probe_reset() already. However, converting from ->probe_reset() to hotplug should be very easy. -- tejun