From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: Intel IDE-R support Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6ED3E7.3010804@garzik.org> References: <20100820173327.30661.51410.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:53347 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814Ab0HTTNr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:13:47 -0400 Received: by vws3 with SMTP id 3so3426947vws.19 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:13:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100820173327.30661.51410.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 > Acked-by: Tejun Heo 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