From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262106AbUDYCso (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:48:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262719AbUDYCso (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:48:44 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:131 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262106AbUDYCsm (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:48:42 -0400 Message-ID: <408B26FC.30101@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:48:28 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org CC: Linux Kernel Subject: [sata] libata update Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm slowly and (somewhat) quietly cleaning up the libata internals. This is allow several interesting features to appear in rapid succession: hotplug, random taskfile submission (SMART!), and ATAPI. This is the first step in cleaning up the internals. Nothing terribly interesting for existing users, except for one key change: Promise SATA driver has been split. Promise TX2/TX4 SATA remains in "sata_promise". The very-different Promise SX4 support is now found in a new driver "sata_sx4". Promise users, please test and make sure I didn't break anything. It seems to work on my Promise SATA h/w. Linux 2.6.x patch and changelog: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.6-rc2-bk3-libata1.patch.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.6-rc2-bk3-libata1.log Linux 2.4.x patch and changelog: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.27-pre1-libata1.patch.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.27-pre1-libata1.log BitKeeper repositories: http://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.[46]