Howdy, This is part of patchset series described in [T]. This is the first take of prep-for-PM-support patchset. This patchset contains 7 patches and implements various stuff needed for PM. One of important updates is the addition of ops->qc_defer(). This is to let LLDDs determine which commands they can accept at the moment. This is necessary for PM and controllers have wildely different capabilities regarding how many/different commands can be issued to how many devices concurrently. More info is in the message [T]. This patchset is against upstream (acc696d93dcf993dec123d69d599979e1456ffec) + [1] prep-for-new-EH patchset + [2] new-EH-framework patchset, take 3 + [3] new-EH-implementation patchset, take 3 + [4] merge-irq-pio patchset + [5] add-NCQ-support patchset, take 3 + [6] prep-for-hotplug support, take 2 + [7] prep-LLDDs-for-hotplug-support, take 1 + [8] add-hotplug-support, take 2 + [9] implement-ata_link, take 1 -- tejun [T] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/9957 [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/9959 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/9984 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/9995 [4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/10005 [5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/10011 [6] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/10028 [7] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/10063 [8] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/10073 [9] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/10106 - : 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