On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:48:31PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> >Hello, all.
> >
> >[adding Jeff and linux-ide to cc list]
> >
> >On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >>On Maw, 2006-04-18 at 13:44 +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote:
> >>>In case PIIX/ICH driver should not make it in 2.6.17, are you planning
> >>>to release patches for 2.6.17-rc release cycle?
> >>I've been on holiday and am now tied up in other work until the start of
> >>May, at which point Jeff goes off and gets married so there may be some
> >>delay.
> >>
> >>2.6.17-rc actually has 95% of the stuff needed to drop the PATA drivers
> >>in and I will try to do patches at least versus 2.6.17 final. The -rcs
> >>will depend upon available time and also what gets integrated that
> >>causes additional work (notably Tejun Ho's stuff will make much merge
> >
> >BTW, my name is Tejun Heo. Tejun Ho sounds horrible in Korean.
> >
> >>work, although its work I'm very glad to do as the improvements and
> >>hotplug support are all needed).
> >
> >I'm currently working on port multiplier support. My working tree now
> >successfully probes and attaches all devices over the PM and I'm
> >currently trying to get EH and hotplug to work with it nicely.
> >EH/hotplug are being changed to support PM. Effects on LLDDs are
> >minimal but you can probably save some work by waiting for the next
> >round of patches before porting to new EH.
> >
> >I think/hope this can be finished in this week and bombard Jeff with
> >patches (updated EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM) before the weekend, so that
> >Jeff can have some time to review and hopefully merge some of it into
> >#upstream before he goes off on honeymoon. In some convoluted way,
> >the patches will be my marriage gift, heh heh.
> >
> >Jeff, *BIG* congratulations. I wish you a great marriage.
>
> Thanks :) And thanks for working on this stuff... As you see, once the
> EH hurdle is cleared, it is much easier to add new features. New
> features will start flooding in, from you and others.
>
> BTW don't forget we want to push Albert's irq-pio branch into upstream
> sometime soon after your EH work settles. I would put irq-pio in front
> of NCQ and PM, particularly.
Hmmm... EH, NCQ, PM stuff doesn't really interfere with irq-pio. The
only thing which needs special attention is hotplug support for
sata_sil as the driver requires PIO HSM implementation but needs to
use its own interrupt handler. So, we need to separate out PIO HSM
from ata_host_intr() and allow LLDD irq handlers to drive it.
Albert, what do you think?
--
tejun
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