On Sunday 07 June 2009 22:07:01 Alan Cox wrote: > > > [ I also tried to encourage libata developers to look into making the needed > > > libata changes (see my initial posting of HPA patches) and I will still be > > > glad to help with libata patches if somebody would like to work on them > > > (Robert? Tejun?). ] > > > > OK, so back off on the 2.6.30-rc7 release of this and I'll undertake to > > get libata engaged for integrating this into both subsystems for > > 2.6.31 ... does that sound fair? > > libata already is, and I've been following and reviewing the patches. The > problem remaining is basically that this is not the time to merge > it. In ide's case the situation is a bit different: This is a bug fix. Not an obvious one but it will help anyone installing a new distribution/kernel using ide on machine with HPA, as it will allow this user for streamline transition to a distribution/kernel using libata later if needed (even though I don't recommend it :). I just want a fair treatment. I'm not posting crap -rc pull request so I see no reason why I have to pay for other maintainers mistakes. This was better tested and reviewed that some other changes that got in after 2.6.30-rc8 (and is smaller than at least one other pull request that got in). I even admitted in the pull request that this may be too late but based on my technical judgment (strongly backed by on reviews from you and Sergei) I considered those changes to be on the edge... It is not a *must*have* for 2.6.30 but still 2.6.30 *shall*have* it. > It will probably also be worth looking at the way the CD driver plays > fast and loose with capacity when handling CD-R devices as a follow on > from this stuff. Sure and it would be easier to look into this (and libata changes) with partitions/ide changes in. -- 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
