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From: Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:31:31 +0800
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Jeff (rightly) thinks the plan should be discussed publically, so here
> is the plan
> 
> For 2.6.19 to move the libata drivers to drivers/ata
> Add a subset of the new PATA drivers living in -mm to the base kernel
> 

Is it planned for the pata_pdc2027x driver to be included in the
subset of upstream PATA drivers? It would be nice to have the driver
for the adapter hotplug on ppc64.

Thanks,

Albert