Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24T03:38:24Z

Albert Lee wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>> Jeff (rightly) thinks the plan should be discussed publically, so here
>> is the plan
>>
>> For 2.6.19 to move the libata drivers to drivers/ata
>> Add a subset of the new PATA drivers living in -mm to the base kernel
>>
>
> Is it planned for the pata_pdc2027x driver to be included in the
> subset of upstream PATA drivers? It would be nice to have the driver
> for the adapter hotplug on ppc64.

Yes. That driver will go along with all the other PATA drivers in the
#pata-drivers branch.

Jeff