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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:13:52 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Status of NCQ in libata
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26 2006, Dan Aloni wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to know about the current status of NCQ support in libata,
>> whether anyone is actively working on it, where I should find a 
>> development branch (there's no ncq branch anymore in libata-dev.git
>> it seems) and when an upstream merge should be expected.
> 
> You can give it a spin in the 'ncq' branch in the block layer git repo:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git
> 
> Only one real bit needs to get merged in libata for ncq to be submitted,
> and that is Tejun's eh rework. Once that is in, ncq becomes a fairly
> small patch and can probably go straight in.
> 
> AHCI is still the only supported controller, once NCQ is merged I'm sure
> a few others will follow.
> 

Patches going out later today. :) I've just ported the NCQ stuff over it 
and about to test it. As I have the doc and hardware NCQ support for 
sata_sil24 will soon follow.

-- 
tejun
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