From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:38:16 -0400 Message-ID: <44ED1F28.4070808@pobox.com> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44ED1D93.3020203@tw.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:63201 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030252AbWHXDiX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:38:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <44ED1D93.3020203@tw.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: albertl@mail.com Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Doug Maxey , Unicorn Chang Albert Lee wrote: > 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. Yes. That driver will go along with all the other PATA drivers in the #pata-drivers branch. Jeff