Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758853AbYFDIsU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:48:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752371AbYFDIsN (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:48:13 -0400 Received: from mtl.rackplans.net ([69.90.0.18]:47339 "EHLO mtl.rackplans.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751450AbYFDIsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:48:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:48:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerhard Mack X-X-Sender: gmack@mtl.rackplans.net To: Rainer Koenig cc: Mikael Pettersson , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels In-Reply-To: <200806040650.12683.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> Message-ID: References: <200806031247.42046.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> <200806031352.31940.elendil@planet.nl> <18501.13296.224958.291840@harpo.it.uu.se> <200806040650.12683.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1087 Lines: 32 On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Hi Mikael, > > Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 14:07 schrieb Mikael Pettersson: > > Redhat seems to regularly backport the entire libata layer > > to at least 2.6.18 (RHEL5) and maybe also 2.6.9 (RHEL4). > > Yes indeed we get perfect support from both Red Hat and SUSE for their > enterprise level distribution. I already got a driver kit for the > SLES10 kernel. The problem is that the targeted market is not willing > to use enterprise level (which means spend money for subscription) > distros. They go for the "free" (as in free beer) distros and suffer > from missing drivers. > Why not just create custom boot cds with the newer kernel for each distro? It seems like less work. Gerhard -- Gerhard Mack gmack@innerfire.net <>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing. -- 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/