Re: [RFT] major libata update

Tejun Heo
2006-05-15T22:52:54Z

Mark Lord wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
> ..
>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5586
>>
>> sata_mv still considered highly experimental, as noted in Kconfig.
>> Bugs deferred to Mark Lord.
> ..
> I think that particular bug has gone away with my internal sata_mv.c
> version.
> I'm updating it for release on top of Jeff/Tejun's patch set, and will
> likely
> backport the bugfixes to 2.6.16.xx as well. Timeline, this week or next.

The hotplug patches will change probing once more. So, I recommend
staying with legacy ->phy_reset mechanism for the time being unless you
are using ->probe_reset() already. However, converting from
->probe_reset() to hotplug should be very easy.

--
tejun