linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6] sata

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Message-Id: <200611222100.kAML0UtV010405@alkaid.it.uu.se>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:00:30 +0100 (MET)
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	jeff@...zik.org, mikpe@...uu.se
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, davem@...emloft.net, htejun@...il.com,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6] sata_promise updates

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:17:18 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>And......  is there any chance you could be talked into working on these 
>sata_promise to-dos:
>
>* conversion to new error handling system (grep for 'freeze', 'thaw', 
>'error_handler', replaces 'phy_reset' and 'eng_timeout')
>
>* support for ATAPI devices (just need to set up ATAPI commands via the 
>packet format described in the public docs)
>
>* support for command queueing
>
>Command queueing is the most involved task, the others should be 
>reasonably straightforward.

I can try, but be warned that I have near-zero experience with ATA
programming. I'll look into new_eh first, and then maybe ATAPI.
NCQ most likely requires someone who understands ATA better than me.

/Mikael
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