Re: [PATCH 00/86] PATA fixes

Alan Cox
2009-12-03T16:57:48Z

> The merge window is upon us, which by strict rules means that anything
> not already in libata-dev.git#upstream needs to wait until 2.6.34.

Not quite yet - Linus hasn't said "go"

> However, bug fixes and the like should definitely be in 2.6.33.
> ->init_host is definitely 2.6.34 material. Some of the other stuff
> could go either way.

The bits that probably should be delayed a bit more (if any) IMHO are the
32bit enables for hardware that doesn't use 32bit by default on the
drivers/ide stack, and tweaks for obscure old hardware that won't get
much testing.

The sooner it's all upstream the better.

Alan