From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932202AbWIPGSh (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:18:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932204AbWIPGSg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:18:36 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:8861 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932202AbWIPGSg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:18:36 -0400 Message-ID: <450B9739.5030009@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:18:33 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Mortensen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x libata resync References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tom Mortensen wrote: > I was wondering if there are any plans for another resync of the latest > 2.6.x libata changes back into the 2.4.x kernel? No plans from me, anyway. The 2.6.x SCSI API is quite different from the 2.4 API. Dropping 2.4 support removed a lot of limitations on the codebase, and allowed accelerated development. That shouldn't stop any sufficiently motivated 3rd party, though... Jeff