[ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and Power Management patches against v2.6.17

Hello, all.

libata-tj-stable patches against v2.6.17 and v2.6.17.1 are available.

* New Power Management added
* Port Multiplier support is dropped for the time being

The patches add the following features to v2.6.17.

* New error handling
* IRQ driven PIO (from Albert Lee)
* SATA NCQ support
* Hotplug support
* New PM (Power Management)

The following drivers support new features.

ahci:		new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, NCQ
ata_piix:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug (HW restriction), PM
sata_nv:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug
sata_sil:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, PM
sata_sil24:	new EH, irq-pio, hotplug, PM, NCQ
sata_sis:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_svw:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_uli:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_via:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL
sata_vsc:	new EH, irq-pio, warmplug, EXPERIMENTAL

More info can be found at the following URL.

 http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable

Patches against v2.6.17 are avaialbe at the following URL.

 http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17-20060625.tar.bz2

Please read README carefully before trying the patches.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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