----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Jones" <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "James C. Bevier" <jbevier@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:18 PM Subject: Re: patches for pata disks on sata promise controller
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:59:14PM -0700, James C. Bevier wrote: > Since the 2.4 kernel, I have had to patch sata_promise.c and libata.c to > recognize pata disks. When the kernel was updated to 2.6.19, all of the > patches were discarded.The 2.6.19 rebase is incomplete. This is why it isn't in updates-testing yet.Pretty much all the stuff that had conflicts get commented out for the time being. > Why were these patches not integrated upstream > over the last two years? I'll leave Jeff to answer that one. I know I'm tired of carrying it too. > Now the code has been redesigned by someone > (Jeff?) and the patches invalidated. Here is a first pass at the > patches for the 2.6.19 and beyond kernels. Dave, could you review the > patch and incorporate them into the next kernel rev? They seem to work > for me, but they needed to be tested with a system that has sata disks > to make sure I did not screw them up. Here is the patch and the diffs > for the spec file. Jeff, care to eyeball this? (Same diff James sent, but with some indentation fixes) Thanks, Dave old patch deleted.................
Dave,Here is a revised patch for using pata drives on the sata_promise 2037x controller. I took out some of the patch that was not getting executed. This patch was tested with the 2909 kernel. I re-enabled the patch2200 code in the spec file to use this new patch. I sure would like to see this in the next release of the kernel so it can be widely tested. This is a replacement for the pre 2.6.19 patch that no longer works. It has been two years for the sata_promise patch, so you would think it should be main stream by now.
Jim
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