Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751338AbWIDMMx (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:12:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751337AbWIDMMx (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:12:53 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:7861 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751304AbWIDMMv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:12:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 14:07:29 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Grant Coady cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1224 Lines: 36 >>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the >>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection >>is now queued for 2.6.19. >> >>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for >>many months. Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA >>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide. > >Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore >ignored so far :( I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, >even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD. > >I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab >depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions? Got udev? /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend. >Plus, 2.6.18-rcX fails too early in boot on one machine (p100 IBM 365X) >for any testing. Suggestions welcome... dmesg or any log. Jan Engelhardt -- -- VGER BF report: H 0 - 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/