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    Subject[ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel
    Hello, all.

    Lately libata has been going through a lot of changes and even more
    are around the corner. I've been working on error handling and
    advanced SATA features for quite sometime now, and, finally, patches
    have been finalized and submitted for review a few days ago.

    2.6.18 is the target for mainline merge. As there is quite some time
    between now and 2.6.18, I have made patches to update the current
    stable kernel to support the new features so that they can receive
    wider testing and interested people don't have to wait too long. I
    intend to maintain these patches through 2.6.16 and 17 until the
    mainline merge happens.

    Added new features are

    * New error handling
    * IRQ driven PIO (from Albert Lee)
    * SATA NCQ support
    * Hotplug support
    * Port Multiplier support

    The following drivers support new features.

    ata_piix: new EH, irq-pio, warmplug (hardware restriction)
    sata_sil: new EH, irq-pio, hotplug
    ahci: new EH, irq-pio, NCQ, hotplug
    sata_sil24: new EH, irq-pio, NCQ, hotplug, Port Multiplier

    More info can be found at the following URL.

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

    Patches against v2.6.16.16 is avaialbe at the following URL.

    http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.16.16-20060512.tar.bz2

    Please read README carefully before testing the patches. Keep in mind
    that these are still quite experimental and not ready for production
    use.

    Thanks.

    --
    tejun
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