linux-kernel - Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

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Date:	Mon, 4 Sep 2006 14:07:29 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

>>I just pulled the "pata-drivers" branch of libata-dev.git into the 
>>"upstream" branch, which means that Alan's libata PATA driver collection 
>>is now queued for 2.6.19.
>>
>>Testing-wise, these PATA drivers have been Andrew Morton's -mm tree for 
>>many months.  Community-wise, no one posted objections to the PATA 
>>driver merge plan, when Alan posted it on LKML and linux-ide.
>
>Too friggin' hard to test Alan's stuff for older IDE here, therefore 
>ignored so far :(   I have some old hardware that Alan is addressing, 
>even an old IBM 260MB PCMCIA HDD.
>
>I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
>depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?

Got udev?

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3802110A_5LR13RN7-partX could be your friend.

>Plus, 2.6.18-rcX fails too early in boot on one machine (p100 IBM 365X) 
>for any testing.  Suggestions welcome...

dmesg or any log.



Jan Engelhardt
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