Re: SATA support merge in 2.4.27

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> Jeff Garzik sent me a SATA update to be merged in 2.4.x. 
>
> A lot of new boxes are shipping with SATA-only disks, and its pretty bad
> to not have a "stable" series without such industry-standard support.
>
> This is the last feature to be merged on 2.4.x, and only because its quite 
> necessary.
>
> Any oppositions?

There are alternative ways* to get sata support for some chips but I
believe it's the right choice to do the 'full' route so I believe it's
the right choice. 2.4 will still be used for quite a while, especially
until "everybody" trusts 2.6, same way that happened with 2.2 and 2.4 ..

* siimage.c, add sata8237 entry to via driver, etc...

// Stefan
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