Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:59:47 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/86] PATA fixes
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> The merge window is upon us, which by strict rules means that anything 
> not already in libata-dev.git#upstream needs to wait until 2.6.34.

Not quite yet - Linus hasn't said "go"

> However, bug fixes and the like should definitely be in 2.6.33. 
> ->init_host is definitely 2.6.34 material.  Some of the other stuff 
> could go either way.

The bits that probably should be delayed a bit more (if any) IMHO are the
32bit enables for hardware that doesn't use 32bit by default on the
drivers/ide stack, and tweaks for obscure old hardware that won't get
much testing.

The sooner it's all upstream the better.

Alan
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