Hi, On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/19/2011 04:25 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> >> Jeff, would it be possible to queue patches #01-15 for 2.6.39 if there >> are no further concerns with them (thus leaving the merging of >> PIIX-like drivers for later)? They got additional testing on ICH4 and >> they look mostly safe& straight-forward compared to #16-21. > > This seems to directly contradict what you wrote earlier in the thread, > > This is why patches were posted to mailing list with a request > for a real hardware testing: > > "All testing was done using QEMU's PIIX3 controller emulation > so any testing with real EFAR, IT8213, old PIIX, RDC and > Radisys R82600 PATA controllers would be really appreciated.." > > instead of request for a merge. It was all there in initial > mail. > > and > > I do not really care that much if it will be merged ever > > Regardless of this self-contradictory attitude, I do want useful patches and > many of these patches seem useful. Nothing self-contradictory there. :) First quote is about patches #01-15 only, not whole patchset (#01-20) like the second one, and I still don't care _that_ much personally if it gets merged since it is all unpaid & voluntary work. > So I will continue watching the Bart/Alan/Sergei threads play out, and then > look at merging the result. In the midst of all the arguing, productive > work / forward progress is occurring, so the end result should be positive. > > It would be nice if we could get at least an "it works" test for the older > hardware, since those are the changes /least/ likely to be tested by > queueing to linux-next. I was thinking about re-doing ata_piix part in a way that we could merge it now by adding support for older PIIX-alikes to ata_piix and making it enabled only if "all_piixalikes" module parameter is specified. This way older drivers would be left untouched for now and we can easily get in-tree testing for a new code. Does it sound as a viable alternative? Thanks, Bartlomiej -- 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
