From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: ATA Pass-Through support Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 03:39:40 +0900 Message-ID: <20060303183940.GA31100@htj.dyndns.org> References: <440736A3.8090207@pobox.com> <440873C5.8050403@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <440873C5.8050403@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Brian King Cc: Jeff Garzik , Quat Le , "Moore, Eric" , dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:50:13AM -0600, Brian King wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >Quat Le wrote: > >>Does anyone know of any SAS HBA vendor whose driver either uses libata > >>or supports SATA Pass-Through SCSI commands in their own layer? > > > >Brian King, maintainer of the ipr driver, has posted patches which > >integrate libata SATA support into his driver. Merging those is on my > >todo list, though I'm currently waiting on Tejun Heo's error handling > >work before tackling that (and NCQ and hotplug...). > > Tejen, > > Is there anything I can do to help with the error handling work Jeff > is referring to? > Hello, Brian. The EH work is in the process of being merged into libata-dev #upstream branch. The merge process has slowed down a bit lately due to bug fixes for 2.6.16 but it's still progressing pretty fast. I think/hope whole EH stuff can be merged during 2.6.17 process or post-2.6.17 #upstream. It shouldn't take too long. We're just two or three patchsets away (and all changes are living in my repository happily although they are a bit rough). So, please give it a few more weeks. We will be there. Thanks. -- tejun