From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] ahci: let users know that Promise PDC42819 support is limited to SATA devices Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:36:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4B176A9A.6010204@garzik.org> References: <65a6ef750911211707m3cece36fsc464e8e5d9273782@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:43846 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753245AbZLCHgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:36:53 -0500 Received: by yxe17 with SMTP id 17so927170yxe.33 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:37:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <65a6ef750911211707m3cece36fsc464e8e5d9273782@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Nelson Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 11/21/2009 08:07 PM, Mark Nelson wrote: > ahci can drive the Promise PDC42819, but obviously it can only use SATA > disks connected to this controller. The controller can actually support > SAS disks as well, but we only know how to use it in it's AHCI mode. > > Add a message to let users know that because ahci is driving their chip > they can only use the SATA disks connected to this controller. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson > --- > drivers/ata/ahci.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) applied