Re: SATA status report updated

[Simon Oosthoek]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Yes, that's why I have resisted the "just add the PCI ID" patches that 
> have cropped up.
>
> SiS submitted patches that duplicated portions of libata inside their 
> driver, rather than simply fixing libata as would be proper.
>
> So we are stuck in the middle :(
>
> Someone needs to work with the SiS submission until it's kosher with the 
> upstream kernel, then everybody will be happy.

I know Mandriva is on the ball and a bug with some information and an 
updated patch is on the kernel bugme...

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17654
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192

I'd say it's important to get some proper fix in a distribution soon (so 
I can use my new PC ;-)

Cheers

Simon
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