On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:48:31PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > >Hello, all. > > > >[adding Jeff and linux-ide to cc list] > > > >On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > >>On Maw, 2006-04-18 at 13:44 +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote: > >>>In case PIIX/ICH driver should not make it in 2.6.17, are you planning > >>>to release patches for 2.6.17-rc release cycle? > >>I've been on holiday and am now tied up in other work until the start of > >>May, at which point Jeff goes off and gets married so there may be some > >>delay. > >> > >>2.6.17-rc actually has 95% of the stuff needed to drop the PATA drivers > >>in and I will try to do patches at least versus 2.6.17 final. The -rcs > >>will depend upon available time and also what gets integrated that > >>causes additional work (notably Tejun Ho's stuff will make much merge > > > >BTW, my name is Tejun Heo. Tejun Ho sounds horrible in Korean. > > > >>work, although its work I'm very glad to do as the improvements and > >>hotplug support are all needed). > > > >I'm currently working on port multiplier support. My working tree now > >successfully probes and attaches all devices over the PM and I'm > >currently trying to get EH and hotplug to work with it nicely. > >EH/hotplug are being changed to support PM. Effects on LLDDs are > >minimal but you can probably save some work by waiting for the next > >round of patches before porting to new EH. > > > >I think/hope this can be finished in this week and bombard Jeff with > >patches (updated EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM) before the weekend, so that > >Jeff can have some time to review and hopefully merge some of it into > >#upstream before he goes off on honeymoon. In some convoluted way, > >the patches will be my marriage gift, heh heh. > > > >Jeff, *BIG* congratulations. I wish you a great marriage. > > Thanks :) And thanks for working on this stuff... As you see, once the > EH hurdle is cleared, it is much easier to add new features. New > features will start flooding in, from you and others. > > BTW don't forget we want to push Albert's irq-pio branch into upstream > sometime soon after your EH work settles. I would put irq-pio in front > of NCQ and PM, particularly. Hmmm... EH, NCQ, PM stuff doesn't really interfere with irq-pio. The only thing which needs special attention is hotplug support for sata_sil as the driver requires PIO HSM implementation but needs to use its own interrupt handler. So, we need to separate out PIO HSM from ata_host_intr() and allow LLDD irq handlers to drive it. Albert, what do you think? -- tejun - : 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
