Re: Any news on PATA support for Promise PDC 20375?

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Daniel,

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my
inquiry. Although I didn't get the attachment, I won't
bother you to re-send, I will try to find it in the
Gentoo kernel. If that fails, I will wait for a
release.

Best regards,
Arthur

--- Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote:

> Arthur Cosma wrote:
> > Please CC me only any reply to this message, as I
> am not a mailing list
> > subscriber.
> > 
> > This was my last resort, as all searches on the
> subject topic yield
> > messages from 2004, many of which mention Jeff
> Garzik's name.
> > 
> > After trying 2.6.13.2, I still don't get the PATA
> drives recognized, so I
> > believe it's still not there yet.
> > 
> > The question is, will it ever be, or has it been
> dropped?
> 
> I'm attaching the patch included in Gentoo's 2.6.13
> kernels, which originally
> came from Jeff's repo.
> 
> I asked Jeff about this patch previously, and his
> comment was:
> 
> > However, this patch in particular is safe and OK
> -- it just needs cleaning
> > up before including in 2.6.13, and I haven't
> figured out how to clean it up
> > yet.  The port_flags[] array this patch adds is a
> hack.
> > 
> > I need to separate the port settings from the host
> settings, which would be
> > the proper fix.
> 
> So I guess the answer is just wait a while longer
> (and patch manually for now) :)
> 
> Daniel
> 



	

	
		
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