From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] libata update Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:31:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4713EA59.30409@garzik.org> References: <20071012194002.GA1545@havoc.gtf.org> <200710130342.22217.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200710130342.22217.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Sonic Zhang , Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Friday 12 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> [ I just sent this upstream to Andrew and Linus ] >> >> Now that I have nailed down the corruption problem, I can attend to >> this... Fun stuff: >> >> * port multiplier support (like an ethernet hub, only dumber) > > Great to see this here. > >> * Asynchronous notification -- finally userspace CD-ROM polling can go away! > > Is this AHCI specific or could be used by some other SATA hosts? Can be used by any controller that supports SNotification (or is able to capture and parse the raw FIS's). And FWIW, Tejun's PMP work also uses a few bits of same async-notify stuff. I agree with your review items, and will look at those if others don't beat me to it. Jeff