Jeff Garzik wrote: > > After much development and review, I merged a massive pile of libata > patches from Tejun Heo and Albert Lee. This update contains the > following major libata > > CHANGES: > * Rewritten error handling. This is a major piece of work, even > though it will be rarely seen. The new libata EH provides the > foundation for not only improved error handling, but also new features > such as device hotplug or command queueing. (Tejun Heo) > > * PIO-based I/O is now IRQ-driven by default, rather than polled > in a kernel thread. The polling path will continue to exist for > controllers that need it, and other special cases. (Albert Lee) > > * Core support for command queueing (Jens Axboe, Tejun Heo) > > * Support for NCQ-style command queueing (Jens Axboe, Tejun Heo) > > * Increase max-sectors dramatically, for LBA48 devices (Tejun Heo?) > > * Other minor changes, from myself and others. How about PATA? Specifically intel's IDE chip. I have a machine that I can blow the hard drive away if I want to. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas??? - : 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
