Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262026AbUDOTIY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:08:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261875AbUDOTIY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:08:24 -0400 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:24012 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262316AbUDOTHn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:07:43 -0400 Message-ID: <407EDD23.3080009@stesmi.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:06:11 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27 References: <20040415171755.GC3218@logos.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20040415171755.GC3218@logos.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 955 Lines: 27 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > Jeff Garzik sent me a SATA update to be merged in 2.4.x. > > A lot of new boxes are shipping with SATA-only disks, and its pretty bad > to not have a "stable" series without such industry-standard support. > > This is the last feature to be merged on 2.4.x, and only because its quite > necessary. > > Any oppositions? There are alternative ways* to get sata support for some chips but I believe it's the right choice to do the 'full' route so I believe it's the right choice. 2.4 will still be used for quite a while, especially until "everybody" trusts 2.6, same way that happened with 2.2 and 2.4 .. * siimage.c, add sata8237 entry to via driver, etc... // Stefan - 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/