Le 05/12/2006 03:24 PM, Tejun Heo a écrit : > 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 > > The following drivers support new features. > > ata_piix: new EH, irq-pio, warmplug (hardware restriction) > sata_sil: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug > ahci: new EH, irq-pio, NCQ, hotplug > sata_sil24: new EH, irq-pio, NCQ, hotplug, Port Multiplier > > More info can be found at the following URL. > > http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable Hi, I've been using this patch for 2.6.16 for a month now, and it really works very well. As 2.6.17 is now released, is there going to be a "libata-tj" for this kernel as well ? BTW, what is the status of sata_sil new code merge with mainline ? Is it still expected to be in 2.6.18 ? Thanks, -- Nico S'assure-t-on sur l'alliance Qu'a faite la nécessité ? -+- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), Le Chat et le Rat (Fables VIII.22) -+- - : 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
