Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 09:04:16 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [RFT] major libata update |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Tomasz Torcz wrote: >>>> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:00:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>>> After much development and review, I merged a massive pile of libata >>>>> patches from Tejun Heo and Albert Lee. This update contains the >>>>> following major libata >>>> >>>> Any plans to merge http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Sil_m15w ? Or >>>> maybe it's merged already? >>>> Seagate firmware update seems to be available only for OEMs, so this >>>> quirk is pretty helpful for end users. >>> >>> Its a question of staging. This still lives in the 'sii-m15w' branch >>> of libata-dev.git, but if we throw too many _classes_ of changes into >>> the same big lump, then it becomes much more difficult to discern >>> which changes caused which failures. >>> >>> Since sata_sil has seen several changes, and since the sii-m15w >>> problems are so difficult to diagnose properly, its easier to >>> separate that out. >> >> Are you planning on merging sil_m15w workaround? > > Yes, but after 2.6.18.
Cool.
>> FYI, from the first time it was submitted (last summer) till 2.6.16, >> it took very little effort to maintain it. The current big update >> would necessitate some changes to it but I don't think it will be too >> much work. My experience says m15w doesn't add too much maintenance >> overhead. > > Its actively maintained in the 'sii-m15w' branch of libata-dev.git. >
I have been maintaining my own. :) BTW, with 2.6.16, m15_cxt has to move from qc->private_data to ap->private_data.
> >> Also, what's the merge plan for hotplug/PM? Together into 2.6.18? Or >> are we looking further down? > > Hotplug is reasonable for 2.6.18, but after that its getting a bit much. > We need to have some reasonable testing points in the midst of all this > development :) I'm happy to maintain an upstream-2.6.19 branch for such > things, though. I use tiered branches anyway.
Good enough for me. I want to see hotplug in 2.6.18 but link/PM stuff can definitely wait for 2.6.19.
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