On Wed, Mar 29 2006, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 26 2006, Dan Aloni wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'd like to know about the current status of NCQ support in libata,
> >>whether anyone is actively working on it, where I should find a
> >>development branch (there's no ncq branch anymore in libata-dev.git
> >>it seems) and when an upstream merge should be expected.
> >
> >You can give it a spin in the 'ncq' branch in the block layer git repo:
> >
> >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git
> >
> >Only one real bit needs to get merged in libata for ncq to be submitted,
> >and that is Tejun's eh rework. Once that is in, ncq becomes a fairly
> >small patch and can probably go straight in.
> >
> >AHCI is still the only supported controller, once NCQ is merged I'm sure
> >a few others will follow.
> >
>
> Patches going out later today. :) I've just ported the NCQ stuff over it
> and about to test it. As I have the doc and hardware NCQ support for
> sata_sil24 will soon follow.
Wonderful! I'm pretty confident in the NCQ stuff these days, so if Jeff
is up for it, it could make 2.6.17.
--
Jens Axboe
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