Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759884AbYFDUFl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:05:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755456AbYFDUFe (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:05:34 -0400 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:50837 "EHLO lug-owl.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751380AbYFDUFd (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:05:33 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1720 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:05:33 EDT Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:36:51 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Rainer Koenig Cc: Mikael Pettersson , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels Message-ID: <20080604193651.GU19431@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Rainer Koenig , Mikael Pettersson , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RDZKVD6KUognMRfE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806040650.12683.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.18-5-686 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1809 Lines: 53 --RDZKVD6KUognMRfE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-06-04 06:50:12 +0200, Rainer Koenig wrote: > 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). >=20 > Yes indeed we get perfect support from both Red Hat and SUSE for their=20 > enterprise level distribution. I already got a driver kit for the=20 > SLES10 kernel. The problem is that the targeted market is not willing > to use enterprise level (which means spend money for subscription)=20 > distros. They go for the "free" (as in free beer) distros and suffer=20 > from missing drivers.=20 Erm... Maybe you'd install a newer version of eg. Debian. At least here, I have: jbglaw@jblaptop:~$ uname -a Linux jblaptop 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Li= nux jbglaw@jblaptop:~$ MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: Don't believe in miracles: Rely on them! the second : --RDZKVD6KUognMRfE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIRu7THb1edYOZ4bsRApbNAJ9W5s1hlOSsDQO5DMbPepe6+ImM9QCcCcvB ipvT2bhS3OxE7lJ+OoFA1nw= =tQbn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RDZKVD6KUognMRfE-- -- 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/