From: Joshua Kugler <joshua.kugler@uaf.edu>
Organization: UAF Center for Distance Education - IT
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:48:52 -0900
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On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:38, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31 2006, Sander wrote:
> > > I got the drivers here:
> > >
> > > http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/
> > >
> > > The latest was mvSata_Linux_3.6.1.tgz as of 2005-10-13.
> >
> > I very, very much prefer in-tree drivers :-)
>
> Actually there is a sata_mv driver in the kernel, however it's pretty
> experimental right now. I'm sure it could use testers :-)

Interesting.  I understand it going through testing, but why didn't they pull 
in the mvSata driver referenced above?  It was already GPL.  Or did they pull 
in that driver and just want testing?

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