Re: Linux 2.6.0-test9

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> bill davidsen wrote:
> > In article <20031027182141.GH32168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Patrik Wallstrom  <pawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > | This patch worked for the Promise-controller:
> > | http://dev.gentoo.org/~brad_mssw/kernel_patches/2.6.0/2.6.0-test9-promise20378.patch
> > 
> > If this patch solves the problem, might I hope that it will be
> > considered critical enough a bugfix to get into the mainline? I assume
> > the SATA code added in test9 was intended to work, rather than as a
> > place holder.
> 
> 
> The above patch solves the 'problem' of a particular PCI id not being 
> listed in the driver.
> 
> IOW it _adds_ new hardware support.

Sounds unlikely to be considered a fix for a major problem. Thanks for the
info. Also sounds unlikely to be a fix for any similar problem :-(

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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