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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: Intel IDE-R support
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:13:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6ED3E7.3010804@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820173327.30661.51410.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On 08/20/2010 01:33 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> Intel IDE-R devices are part of the Intel AMT management setup. They don't
> have any special configuration registers or settings so the ata_generic
> driver will support them fully.
>
> Rather than add a huge table of IDs for each chipset and keep sending in
> new ones this patch autodetects them.
>
> [Added some further comments]
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox<alan@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo<tj@kernel.org>

One last question:  is this extremely urgent?

As the merge window is closed, I would prefer to have this in #upstream 
(linux-next, ie. 2.6.37) rather than #upstream-fixes (2.6.36-rc).

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-20 17:33 [PATCH] ata: Intel IDE-R support Alan Cox
2010-08-20 19:13 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2010-08-20 20:06   ` Alan Cox

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