Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:34:43 +0100 | From | Daniel Drake <> | Subject | Re: Any news on PATA support for Promise PDC 20375? |
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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) :)
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