From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750977AbWCAMyZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:54:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750965AbWCAMyZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:54:25 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39138 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750937AbWCAMyY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:54:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4405997E.3040609@suse.de> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:54:22 +0100 From: Hannes Reinecke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: [RFC] Enabling of libata PATA support Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, does anyone know the status of the libata PATA support? I know that Alan Cox is intensively working on them, so they should be in a reasonable state by now. If that is the case, couldn't we enable PATA support as _optional_ drivers? This would get us ACPI support for those chipset for free (as SATA ACPI support will be included, yes Jens?). And this is required on most modern Laptops for suspend to RAM (and possibly also suspend to disk) to work properly. Thoughts? Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de