From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:36:17 +0900 Message-ID: <489632E1.6090900@kernel.org> References: <1217779055.4179.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080803173941.314edf33@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1217783433.4179.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080803194501.24fa3e51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48960B28.2040709@ij.net> <48962C6E.5080802@kernel.org> <20080803230502.2cfd013e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:52169 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757430AbYHCWhA (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:37:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080803230502.2cfd013e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Felix Miata , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.1/2568.html >> >> Dunno it will get in tho. > > Take it up with Al. He vetoed the needed fixes for this before libata > even acquired PATA support. Since then nothing has happened. > > This is simply not a technical problem. Al Viro is cc'd in all the postings. Don't really know what else to do. -- tejun