Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2006 22:24:37 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |