> It eventually has to end up in -rc. If not for 2.6.25-rc1 is too early, > we can put it in #testing and put it into #upstream later. Nobody cares about libata git trees. If you want some initial test coverage put it in -mm. > primarily worried about. Command type dependent quick fallback might > help but ancient controllers are more likely to bring the whole machine > down when a DMA transaction goes south. Quite the reverse in my experience - the dumber the controller the more likely that ATAPI DMA and LBA48 and other stuff just works anyway. Alan - 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