From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: please add support for the VT8251 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:17:41 +0900 Message-ID: <44CD21F5.2020909@gmail.com> References: <20060730185251.GA6954@ns.raidoneeyaikaep.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:4752 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932148AbWG3VRe (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:17:34 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id t32so456713pyc for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:17:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20060730185251.GA6954@ns.raidoneeyaikaep.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ronan Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Ronan wrote: > Hi. > > I don't like to badger open-source developers, but an email from Jeff > Garzik (archived at [1]) suggests that it may be worth doing so in my > particular situation. > > [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114290600200440&w=2 > > My situation is this: I recently purchased a PC which contains a VIA > VT8251 southbridge. As far as I can see, this is not currently supported > by Linux, so it seems that (as I have insufficient knowledge to write > the code myself) I have no option but to wait until it is. Therefore, > I would like to request that the Linux IDE developers implement support > for this chipset. Already went into mainline. v2.6.18-rc3 already includes it. If you're uncomfortable with -rc series, libata-tj-stable patch also has it. http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2 -- tejun