Hello, all. libata-tj-stable patches against v2.6.17.4 are available. * Hotplug-by-polling added * Port Multiplier support added back (sil3726 support added) The patches add the following features to v2.6.17.4. * New error handling * IRQ driven PIO (from Albert Lee) * SATA NCQ support * Hotplug support * New PM (Power Management) * Hotplug-by-poll * Port Multiplier support The following drivers support new features. ahci: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, NCQ ata_piix: new EH, irq-pio, warmplug (HW restriction), PM sata_nv: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug sata_sil: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, PM sata_sil24: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, PM, NCQ, PMP sata_sis: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL sata_svw: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL sata_uli: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL sata_via: new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL sata_vsc: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug-poll, EXPERIMENTAL More info can be found at the following URL. http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable Patches against v2.6.17.4 are avaialbe at the following URL. http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060708.tar.bz2 Please read README carefully before trying the patches. Thanks. -- tejun - : 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
