[ANNOUNCE] libata-tj-stable against v2.6.17.4 available

[ANNOUNCE] libata-tj-stable against v2.6.17.4 available

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, all.

libata-tj-stable patches against v2.6.17.4 are available.

* Hotplug-by-polling added
* Port Multiplier support added back (sil3726 support added)

The patches add the following features to v2.6.17.4.

* New error handling
* IRQ driven PIO (from Albert Lee)
* SATA NCQ support
* Hotplug support
* New PM (Power Management)
* Hotplug-by-poll
* Port Multiplier support

The following drivers support new features.

ahci:		new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, NCQ
ata_piix:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug (HW restriction), PM
sata_nv:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug
sata_sil:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, PM
sata_sil24:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, PM, NCQ, PMP
sata_sis:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_svw:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_uli:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_via:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_vsc:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL

More info can be found at the following URL.

 http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable

Patches against v2.6.17.4 are avaialbe at the following URL.

 http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060708.tar.bz2

Please read README carefully before trying the patches.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata-tj-stable against v2.6.17.4 available

[Tejun Heo]

Updated version available.

* Link resume handling in the previous version was broken causing libata 
to ignore hotplug event after a link has been hot-unplugged.  Fixed.

* A few other hotplug related problems are fixed.

I expect this version to have well-behaving PMP and hotplug support. If 
anything seems weird, please report.

More info can be found at the following URL.

http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable

Updated patches against v2.6.17.4 are at the following URL.

http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2 


Thanks.

-- 
tejun