From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: SATA port multiplier support in 2.6.21 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:53:45 +0900 Message-ID: <4A684F49.3020904@gmail.com> References: <24580821.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090721025034.GA15894@psychosis.jim.sh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f192.google.com ([209.85.222.192]:50557 "EHLO mail-pz0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753985AbZGWL5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:57:54 -0400 Received: by pzk30 with SMTP id 30so428597pzk.33 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:57:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090721025034.GA15894@psychosis.jim.sh> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jim Paris Cc: Learner Study , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jim Paris wrote: > Learner Study wrote: >> Hello: >> >> I understand that SATA port multiplier support was added in 2.6.24. >> I would like to use 2.6.21 and still use port multilplier. Can someone point >> me to a patch I may use to do this? Any other ideas? > > There were patches from Tejun (libata-tj-stable) for 2.6.18 and 2.6.22 > at one point, but I don't know where you'd find them anymore (the > original site at http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable > is down). You may have some luck googling around for those. Here are old patches. http://htj.dyndns.org/export/libata-tj-old/ > 2.6.21 is over two years old, so your best bet would be to upgrade to > a more recent version, or, if you're stuck with some distribution > kernel, talk to your vendor for support. But, yeah, seriously, if at all possible, please use newer kernels. There have been a lot of updates. Thanks. -- tejun