Tejun Heo wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Tomasz Torcz wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:00:06PM -0400, 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
Any plans to merge http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Sil_m15w ? Or
maybe it's merged already?
Seagate firmware update seems to be available only for OEMs, so this
quirk is pretty helpful for end users.
Its a question of staging. This still lives in the 'sii-m15w' branch
of libata-dev.git, but if we throw too many _classes_ of changes into
the same big lump, then it becomes much more difficult to discern
which changes caused which failures.
Since sata_sil has seen several changes, and since the sii-m15w
problems are so difficult to diagnose properly, its easier to separate
that out.
Are you planning on merging sil_m15w workaround?
Yes, but after 2.6.18.
FYI, from the first time it was submitted (last summer) till 2.6.16, it
took very little effort to maintain it. The current big update would
necessitate some changes to it but I don't think it will be too much
work. My experience says m15w doesn't add too much maintenance overhead.
Its actively maintained in the 'sii-m15w' branch of libata-dev.git.
Also, what's the merge plan for hotplug/PM? Together into 2.6.18? Or
are we looking further down?
Hotplug is reasonable for 2.6.18, but after that its getting a bit much.
We need to have some reasonable testing points in the midst of all
this development :) I'm happy to maintain an upstream-2.6.19 branch for
such things, though. I use tiered branches anyway.
Jeff
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