Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757461AbZKSV5S (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:57:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755930AbZKSV5R (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:57:17 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44358 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755522AbZKSV5Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:57:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4B05BF3F.3040407@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:57:19 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] pata: Update experimental tags References: <20091117144450.15430.83450.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <200911181919.19127.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4B05BA72.2030406@garzik.org> <200911192242.59476.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911192242.59476.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2441 Lines: 67 On 11/19/2009 04:42 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:36:50 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> On 11/18/2009 01:19 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 15:51:39 Alan Cox wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox >>>> --- >>>> >>>> drivers/ata/Kconfig | 8 ++++---- >>>> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/ata/Kconfig b/drivers/ata/Kconfig >>>> index f2df6e2..36931e0 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/ata/Kconfig >>>> +++ b/drivers/ata/Kconfig >>>> @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ config PATA_HPT366 >>>> If unsure, say N. >>>> >>>> config PATA_HPT37X >>>> - tristate "HPT 370/370A/371/372/374/302 PATA support (Experimental)" >>>> + tristate "HPT 370/370A/371/372/374/302 PATA support" >>>> depends on PCI&& EXPERIMENTAL >>>> help >>>> This option enables support for the majority of the later HPT >>>> @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ config PATA_HPT37X >>>> If unsure, say N. >>>> >>>> config PATA_HPT3X2N >>>> - tristate "HPT 372N/302N PATA support (Experimental)" >>>> + tristate "HPT 372N/302N PATA support" >>>> depends on PCI&& EXPERIMENTAL >>>> help >>>> This option enables support for the N variant HPT PATA >>> >>> Maybe they are 'stable' but when it comes to features they are behind hpt366 >>> (i.e. they lack PCI PM), which is also much cleaner than your drivers, easier >>> to understand and much smaller.. >> >> That sounds like an ACK to Alan's patch, to me ;-) >> >> A libata driver can be stable, yet not have all the features of drivers/ide. >> >> That said, I do agree that libata drivers need to have the features >> found in the drivers/ide/ drivers. > > Feel free to add them Mr. Maintainer. :) Oh, I'm happy to wait until one of two scenarios occurs: 1) Bart annoys Alan sufficiently to motivate Alan to add feature X 2) Alan annoys Bart sufficiently to motivate Bart to add feature X Personally, I think my two PATA co-maintainers are doing an excellent job of finding and killing bugs, and adding features, even if the mailing list traffic is contentious. I'm happy as long as the users win in the end... Jeff -- 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/