On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:24:39 +0200 "Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/22/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ > [snip] > > -ata-add-the-sw-ncq-support-to-sata_nv-for-mcp51-mcp55-mcp61.patch > > -ata-add-the-sw-ncq-support-to-sata_nv-for-mcp51-mcp55-mcp61-fix.patch > [snip] > > Merged into mainline or a subsystem tree > > That patch is no longer in 2.6.23-rc3-mm1, my bootlog says: > [ 0.000000] Unknown boot option `sata_nv.swncq=1': ignoring > > I could not find this patch in any git trees I looked and its removal > mail from mm-commit said: > "This patch was dropped because Changes in Jeff's tree destroyed it." > > > I only found out about the swncq=1 command line option yesterday and > so tested it only one day. > But I did not have any trouble with it, even as my drive was made by Maxtor. > > The chipset: > 00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) > 00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) > 00:05.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) > > The drive: > Device Model: MAXTOR STM3320820AS > Serial Number: 5QF2E698 > Firmware Version: 3.AAE > > As it worked for me, I hope that patch will be picked up by someone. :) > This is a fairly regular occurrence in ata land: patches from maintainers don't get merged, so I merge them for testing, then some fairly pointless cleanup-style patch goes on a great tree-wide rampage thus destabilising or simply destroying the more important, mysteriously-not-merged patch. Nobody knows why this happens. Peer and Kuan: can you please redo that patch against the current ata development tree? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
