From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932742AbVHSXBe (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:01:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932743AbVHSXBe (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:01:34 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.home.nl ([213.51.128.196]:52700 "EHLO smtpq1.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932742AbVHSXBd (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:01:33 -0400 Message-ID: <430664C8.1090000@home.nl> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:01:28 +0200 From: Simon Oosthoek User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA status report updated References: <4AA7B-4jm-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <4DagM-7c8-43@gated-at.bofh.it> <871x4ql24a.fsf@ABG3595C.abg.fsc.net> <43062623.607@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <43062623.607@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Yes, that's why I have resisted the "just add the PCI ID" patches that > have cropped up. > > SiS submitted patches that duplicated portions of libata inside their > driver, rather than simply fixing libata as would be proper. > > So we are stuck in the middle :( > > Someone needs to work with the SiS submission until it's kosher with the > upstream kernel, then everybody will be happy. I know Mandriva is on the ball and a bug with some information and an updated patch is on the kernel bugme... http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17654 http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192 I'd say it's important to get some proper fix in a distribution soon (so I can use my new PC ;-) Cheers Simon