From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:25:26 -0400 Message-ID: <44FCE016.6080600@garzik.org> References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> 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]:29078 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965091AbWIECZa (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:25:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andras Mantia Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andras Mantia wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the >> "upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection >> is now queued for 2.6.19. >> >> Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for >> many months. Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA >> driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide. > > Does this include the patch to support the PATA port on the promise > controllers (described here > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=176249 ) ? Unfortunately not. This patch still lives in -mm (and branch promise-sata-pata). Hopefully this can be merged once the init code is cleaned up some more. Jeff