Re: Happy New Year, libata hackers

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:

>
> Well, another year has passed, and somehow the duct tape that keeps our
> hard drives together has remained intact.  After a nice and refreshing
> holiday, I have a bunch of patches pending, that will probably take a
> week or two to sort through.
>
> For 2.6.16, my main goals are getting irq-pio upstream and supporting
> iomap -- which will kill all those annoying warnings finally.  And
> probably some EH work from Tejun will go in too.  The suspend/resume
> stuff is shaping up nicely, and device hotplug work suddenly reappeared.
>   Fun for all.

+ selectable debugging macros etc.
  (used in ACPI suspend/resume patches, but can be used in all of libata)

> Port multiplier and NCQ (queueing) support are the two other big to-do
> items on the list.
>
> I updated the hardware status report at
> 	http://linux.yyz.us/sata/
>
> and will update the software status report in a week or two.
>
> Everybody wants to play in the same sandbox, so please be patient as we
> sort it all out.
>
> Cheers and happy new year,

Likewise.

-- 
~Randy
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