From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ata_piix: drop merged SCR access and use slave_link
 instead
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:36:00 -0400
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Tejun Heo wrote:
> Now that libata has slave_link, there's no need to keep ugly merged
> SCR access.  Drop it and use slave_link instead.  This results in
> simpler code and much better separate link handling for master and
> slave.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

ACK patchset, patches 1-5

My only comment is that it would be nice to start moving libata closer 
to SAS, since this seems to parallel some SAS concepts.

now, off to Puerto Rico for a long weekend!