Re: [RFT] major libata update

Jeff Garzik
2006-05-15T23:45:09Z

Wakko Warner wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 19:02 -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
>>> How about PATA? Specifically intel's IDE chip. I have a machine that I can
>>> blow the hard drive away if I want to.
>> Give the patch on zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE a go in that case and let
>> me know how it behaves.
>
> I noticed one hunk failed with 2.6.17-rc4 when using
> patch-2.6.17-rc3-ide2.gz
>
> It was only the version string so I should be ok. As I said, if it blows up
> on me, that's ok.
>
> I attempted to patch Jeff's libata1 over top of this, it failed miserably.
>
> When I patched Jeff's libata1 over 2.6.17-rc4, it was ok, except for 2
> files:

oh, its almost certain the patches will conflict. My suggestion was
more of a reference-<here>-if-things-break.

Jeff