On Fri, 12 May 2006 22:24:37 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, all. > > Lately libata has been going through a lot of changes and even more > are around the corner. I've been working on error handling and > advanced SATA features for quite sometime now, and, finally, patches > have been finalized and submitted for review a few days ago. > > 2.6.18 is the target for mainline merge. As there is quite some time > between now and 2.6.18, I have made patches to update the current > stable kernel to support the new features so that they can receive > wider testing and interested people don't have to wait too long. I > intend to maintain these patches through 2.6.16 and 17 until the > mainline merge happens. > > Added new features are > > * New error handling > * IRQ driven PIO (from Albert Lee) > * SATA NCQ support > * Hotplug support > * Port Multiplier support BTW, we often use PM to mean Power Management. Could we find a different acronym for Port Multiplier support, such as PMS or PX or PXS? --- ~Randy - : 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
