Tejun Heo wrote: > 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. In the irq-pio branch, the HSM code has been seperated out from ata_host_intr() to ata_hsm_move() as static function currently. Maybe we can export ata_hsm_move() as external? I didn't look into how sil3611 hotplug interacts with PIO HSM. Don't know whether this is good enough for the need of sata_sil. -- albert - : 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
