From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: How to activate pata support of ata_piix in vanilla 2.6.18? Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:27:10 -0400 Message-ID: <451BBF9E.6010004@garzik.org> References: <87slicw5q5.fsf@denkblock.local> 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]:53990 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbWI1M1M (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:27:12 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-190-194-075.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.194.75] helo=[10.10.10.99]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.62 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GSuyt-0005Ox-97 for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:27:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87slicw5q5.fsf@denkblock.local> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Elias Oltmanns wrote: > A git checkout of libata-dev.git worked out of the > box. My question is whether pata support in ata_piix was intentionally > not included in mainline as of 2.6.18 (even when ATA_ENABLE_PATA is > set), or if there may be a bug. libata PATA support basically doesn't exist in 2.6.18. It's queued for 2.6.19 in torvalds/linux-2.6.git however. Jeff