From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: SATA PMP for 2.6.20 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:48:27 +0900 Message-ID: <45C77BFB.5010907@gmail.com> References: <45C76B00.4070806@gmail.com> <20070205184251.GT23455@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:49079 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933331AbXBESsc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:48:32 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1673840wxd for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:48:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20070205184251.GT23455@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Robin H. Johnson" Cc: John Eckhart , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I did it for 2.6.20-rc2: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/libata-development/ > > The original message id with instructions is: > <20061228113446.GI28939@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> Yeap, you're the one I was looking for. :-) > There are 5 sets of patches in total of Tejun's work, named the same as > Tejun's branches: > hp_poll > vt8261_ahci > link > pmp_prep > pmp > > I do have it in my git tree, so I should be able to rebase against > 2.6.20 and export again. > > Is there an actual merge plan for this stuff, esp. the hp_poll and > ata_link stuff? Yes, there definitely is. As you can probably tell from the git history and posted patches, libata is still under great flux. There are three major changes - EH improvements (under review), new init model, and sysfs support - I wanna get in before hp_poll and pmp stuff. So, can't exactly tell when but it's in foreseeable future, sorry about repeated delays. -- tejun