Hello, people. It's been another looooooong week. Build number of my ATA work tree, which was created at the end of Feburary, is now over 1040 and all my SATA plugs are worn and unplug easily. But, hey, hotplug works now. I'm about to post the following 9 patchsets composed of 97 patches. The first two patchsets have been posted previously but I'll repost them for simplicity's sake. 1. misc-reset-updates : repost (3 patches) 2. implement-and-use-ata_wait_register : repost (5 patches) 3. misc-ata_bus_probe-updates : take 1 (3 patches) 4. fixes-errata-workaround-and-reset-updates : take 3 (13 patches) 5. new-EH-framework : take 2 (16 patches) 6. new-EH-implementation : take 2 (14 patches) 7. add-NCQ-support : take 3 (15 patches) 8. prep-for-hotplug-support : take 1 (15 patches) 9. add-hotplug-support : take 1 (13 patches) All patchsets are against the current upstream[1] and stacks on the previous ones. However, patchsets 5 and upwards depend on the following SCSI updates. implement-scsi_eh_schedule patchset [2] fix-scsi_kill_request-busy-count-handling patch [3] new-EH-framwork and new-EH-implementation patchsets received a lot of updates (all recorded in the head message of the patchests). NCQ patchset is largely unchanged except other than addition of sata_sil24 support. Hotplug supports both warm and hot unplug/plug. More details are on the head message of add-hotplug-support patchset and inidividual patch descriptions. I'm planning on making combined patches against release kernels (stable kernel and maybe -rc?) such that the whole EH/NCQ/hotplug can be tested more widely and impatient and living-on-the-cutting-edge people don't have to wait till these make it to mainline. Also, if you guys have any major objection or concerns with the current design and implementation. Please let me know early as I'm gonna start working on port multiplier support on top of these very soon. Albert, sata_sil-new_interrupt_handler patch in the patchset add-hotplug-support implements a private interrupt handler for sata_sil but sata_sil still needs to use PIO support in libata. Currently it's okay as irq-driven path and PIO path are completely separate, but to merge with irq-pio branch, we need to separate PIO HSM from the standard interrupt handler such that LLDD's private interrupt handler can drive HSM. Thanks! -- tejun [1] c2a6585296009379e0f4eff39cdcb108b457ebf2 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/9290 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/9487 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
